{"slug": "qwen3-8b-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "title": "Qwen3 8B deprecated, retires 2026-10-09", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "QW▲ Retiring soon\n\n# Qwen3 8B\n\nAlibaba (Qwen) · qwen3-8b\n\nReleased2025-04-01\n\nRetires2026-10-09in 12d\n\nqwentext131k context8k max out\n\nalso matches: \n\n`qwen3-8b`` alibaba/qwen3-8b`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/alibaba/qwen3-8b)\n\nDoes your code call Qwen3 8B?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-8b-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/alibaba/alibaba/qwen3-8b", "published_at": "2026-09-25 18:00:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-27 06:30:16.973609+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen3 8B", "models.dev", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-8b-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-8b-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-8b-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/qwen3-8b-deprecated-retires-2026-10-09.jsonld"}}