Qwen3.8-27B
2 published articles
Qwen / Alibaba3 min read
Qwen / Alibaba
Qwen3.8-27B can read 1M tokens, but only if you flip the right flags
Qwen3.8-27B ships a reasoning-effort dial and a 262K native context that stretches to 1M tokens with the right flags. The catch, buried in Alibaba's own guide: dialing the thinking down can slow agent pipelines. Here is what the flags do and when low effort backfires.
2026-09-18
Qwen / Alibaba5 min read
AI Safety: Abliteration and Open Weights
Abliterated Qwen3.8-27B: refusals drop to 0%, benchmarks barely move
An abliterated, FP8-quantized build of Qwen3.8-27B refuses 0% of harmful prompts on AdvBench, down from 99%, while general benchmarks stay within 1.3 points. The model card documents the method in unusual detail. The caveats deserve equal attention.
2026-08-16