Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here. There are reasons to believe the hype when it comes to the Qwen models; I've had consistently good experiences with Qwen 3.6 27B, and Qwen 3.8 27B is, so far, more of the same but better. In fact, Artificial Analysis has it as the top open-weights model in its 4B to 40B size class out of 135 models, with a 52.