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 releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license appeared first on The Decoder
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Published: 14 August 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 15 August 2026
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