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Alibaba Releases Qwen 3.8-27B: Apache 2.0 Dense Vision-Language Model That Runs on a Single RTX 4090
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Qwen 3.8-27B on August 14, 2026 — a 27.8-billion parameter dense vision-language model under Apache 2.0. Supporting text, image, and video inputs with a native 262K context window, it runs in roughly 16-17 GB of VRAM when quantized to 4-bit, making it viable on a single RTX 4090.