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Qwen3 8B deprecated, retires 2026-10-09

Alibaba's Qwen3 8B model, released 2025-04-01, is deprecated and retires on 2026-10-09, according to a provider announcement tracked by models.dev. The model supports a 131k context window with 8k max output and is identified by the IDs qwen3-8b and alibaba/qwen3-8b. The retirement notice is being surfaced by llmstatus.ai, which scans repositories to flag models on a deprecation clock.

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Qwen3 8B deprecated, retires 2026-10-09
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QW▲ Retiring soon

Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen3-8b

Released2025-04-01

Retires2026-10-09in 12d

qwentext131k context8k max out

also matches:

`qwen3-8b`` alibaba/qwen3-8b`
[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/alibaba/qwen3-8b)

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source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article Qwen3 235B-A22B deprecated, retires 2026-10-09 Qwen3.6 Max Preview deprecated, retires 2026-10-09 New model: GPT-6 Sol (Global) (Amazon)
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