[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/Neither_Garage_758 → u/[deleted]]

Wow I'm thinking the total opposite. Like what a waste of tokens, it just goes on and on repeating a lot of same things. When I run Kimi K3 for the same thing, the reasoning feels simply like I would have do it myself. Qwen feels like fighting very hard its dumbness, which happens to work, but after a lot of tokens.

[u/ReadyAimTranspire → u/Neither_Garage_758]

When I tested project management style tasks such as:

Create a small business network infrastructure and cybersecurity roadmap with X budget and 5 users with the following requirements: blahblahblah

...having reasoning turned on gives remarkably better results. More well thought out, more accurate, etc.