Qwen Releases Open Weights for 27B Multimodal Model
The 27B model is now available on Ollama for agentic coding and professional tasks.
Alibaba's Qwen account posted that it released open weights for Qwen3.8-27B under an Apache 2.0 license. The native multimodal model runs on Ollama, where users can launch it with existing harnesses such as Claude Code or OpenCode. Official messages from the Qwen and Ollama accounts describe the model as suitable for agentic coding, browser tasks, and professional work. Engineers and researchers quoted in the posts shared the announcement and noted its performance at this size.
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M…
