ProductThe Decoder·August 14, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications. The article Alibaba's Qwen team…

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