{"slug": "meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool", "title": "Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling", "summary": "Underdog Saluki 27B, a 7.89 GB 2-bit GGUF quantization of Qwen3.8-27B released under Apache 2.0, outperforms the 54 GB original model on tool calling while losing ground on competition math and reasoning, according to MarkTechPost. The release cuts the model's footprint to roughly one-seventh of the original's size.", "body_md": "Underdog Saluki 27B is a 7.89 GB, 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. It beats the 54 GB original on tool calling but gives up ground on competition math and reasoning.\n\nThe post [Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/09/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool-calling/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/09/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool-calling/", "published_at": "2026-10-09 07:23:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-09 08:53:12.688855+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-tools", "machine-learning", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Underdog Saluki 27B", "Qwen3.8-27B", "MarkTechPost", "Apache 2.0"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-the-underdog-saluki-27b-a-2-bit-qwen3-8-27b-that-beats-the-original-at-tool.jsonld"}}