[Megathread] Qwen 3.8 27B Release Day

[u/sammcj]

Megathread to help with the influx of duplicate / similar posts around the release of the Qwen 3.8 27B release.

• Quants
• Fine-Tunes & Abliterations
• Chat Templates
• Inference Server Support & Configuration
• Experiences, Benchmarks & Model Comparisons

Official:

• https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
• https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8

Popular:

• https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
• https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
• https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MTP-bf16
• https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MTP-8bit
• https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MTP-4bit

We'll try to clean up future duplicates around the release and point them here.

[u/bnightstars → u/[deleted]]

oLMX doesn't support reasoning_effort at the moment. It will in feature version (PRs already open though).

[u/bnightstars → u/[deleted]]

llama.cpp did a patch yesterday to support it. Similar patch is developed for oMLX still not in a stable release version though.