# Alibaba says Qwen3.8-27B passed one million downloads days after release

_Published Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 8:07 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Alibaba says its open-source multimodal Qwen3.8-27B model passed one million downloads within days of release. The company described the model as small enough for customers to run on personal computers and said it is among its fastest-growing models. The supplied summary does not provide an independent download count or a comparison with Alibaba's other releases.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260818/p11#a260818p11)

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Published: 2026-08-18T12:07:26.318Z
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