Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the company’s fastest-growing models to date.
The model is open source and free to download. It has 27 billion parameters, and it understands text, image and video prompts, according to The Information. Alibaba published the weights on Hugging Face on Friday under an Apache 2.0 licence, VentureBeat reported. That licence lets companies inspect, change and host the model themselves.
The interest tracks a wider shift. Alibaba is chasing the market for small models that run on a user’s own hardware. Those models skip the paid cloud service. The 27B is part of the same family as Qwen3.8-Max, the large flagship. It also...
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