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Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba G
Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …
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Source: Techmeme | 2026-08-18