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Availability · August 13, 2026

Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 licence

The Qwen team published a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model with a 262-thousand-token context under a permissive licence that allows commercial use without negotiation.

Why it matters

A model that understands images and video natively, with a quarter-million-token context, became freely available for commercial use.

The weights were uploaded to the Hugging Face repository on 13 August 2026; the repository itself was created on 5 August and the licence file added on 14 August. The licence is Apache 2.0. The card states 27 billion parameters and a context length of 262,144 tokens, extensible up to one million. The model has native support for image and video understanding, from STEM diagrams and documents to hour-scale videos, and is classified as image-text-to-text. The card gives no release date, so the record rests on the commit history. It is the smaller companion to Qwen3.8-Max, whose weights were published a few days earlier under a different, custom licence.

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The day the weights were uploaded, per the repository commit history. The model card gives no date, and secondary sources differ between 13 and 14 August.

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