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Long Review: Qwen 3.8 27B is VERY good at tapping into it's real-world knowledge. It's "overthinking" brings it to Sonnet level performance with the potential for Opus level results.

Via r/LocalLlama
Monday, Aug 17, 2026 · 8:09AM
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Hi all! I finally just got around to testing out Qwen 3.8 27b. I'm using Unsloth's UD-Q8_K_XL quant as a sit-in replacement to Qwen 3.6 27b, same quant size. Wow -- this thing isn't messing around. I have many baseline test prompts to gauge the 'intelligence' and usability of the model, but a go-to

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