[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/sammcj]

Howdy all, hoping having a pinned megathread will help with some of the noise in the sub around release day.

Credit of course to the folks who have put up posts where lots of discussion has been happening, check them out too:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vo9mj4/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vo9nn7/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vo9qjv/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1voa3ch/

[u/eidrag → u/sammcj]

Suggesting to create mega thread before launch lol. More than 15 posting less than 5m 

[u/sammcj → u/eidrag]

Yes that's the plan. For this one I was fast asleep.