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17th August 2026 - Link Blog

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (via) That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek is 1.7T parameters, and Luna is size unknown but presumably a whole lot bigger than 27B.

Qwen 3.8 27B is a truly astonishing model.

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 17th August 2026.

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