{"slug": "alibaba-s-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache", "title": "Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.8, a dense 27-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks while natively processing up to 262,000 tokens of context. The release targets developers building local and agent-based applications.", "body_md": "Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications.\n\nThe article [Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache-2-0-license/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache-2-0-license/", "published_at": "2026-08-14 17:01:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 17:19:02.828608+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen 3.8", "Qwen 3.7 Plus", "Apache 2.0", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-qwen-team-releases-qwen-3-8-models-with-open-weights-under-the-apache.jsonld"}}