Qwen3.8-27B: the best local LLM you probably can't run
Qwen3.8-27B runs on consumer hardware under Apache 2.0. I tested it on a 24GB M4 — here's the real RAM, speed and privacy picture, minus the hype.
Qwen3.8-27B runs on consumer hardware under Apache 2.0. I tested it on a 24GB M4 — here's the real RAM, speed and privacy picture, minus the hype.
I ran Alibaba's new 2.4T Qwen3.8-Max-Preview through 4 real coding tests. Results rival Fable 5 and Grok 4.5 — with one big catch: speed.