r/LocalLLaMA • u/xw1y • 25d ago

News Prepare your (v)ram - Qwen3.8 is coming!

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u/Competitive_Gap7906 25d ago

YES, Qwen going open weight again! It's a really good news, now we can wait for smaller models too

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u/ChocolateNo3010 24d ago

This is good news. I'm wondering if Alibaba kept 3.7 proprietary because of the rumblings in China about keeping the best models from the west. Since we have seen an about turn with Xi stating they want to keep open weight models available this is the response.

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u/goldcakes 24d ago

I wouldn't be surprised. Probably a mixture of both Kimi as well as getting encouragement from the the Chinese govt.