Qwen3.8-27B: 27B dense, Apache 2.0, 65 tok/s on a 4090.
The "beats Opus 4.6 on every benchmark" take is wrong. Their own table: wins SWE-bench Pro, loses Terminal-Bench, GPQA, HLE. Hands-on reviewers put it between Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 5, which is still wild for 27B.
Ran the "Lord of the Rings intro" test with both DeepSeek-V4-Flash 0731 (cloud version) and Qwen3.8-27B (local on my DGX Spark)
DS4 was quicker (40 min vs. 2hr 17 min) and hit some of the elements better (party tent), but the Qwen model made a much visually richer world and did
An interactive 3D simulation of a coronal mass ejection striking Earth, compressing the magnetosphere
Intensifying aurora and stretching the magnetotail toward reconnection, with adjustable CME intensity. Code -> Opus 5 using Three.js
This dev one-shotted this game with opus 5 + thrixel
Every asset - volcano, octopus, boulders, water - generated from a prompt. no one modeled a single thing. this is a full arcade flier with 2026 graphics, one-shotted.
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