Alibaba just turned AI from a chatbot into a workforce.
And the biggest upgrade isn’t the 2.4 trillion parameters. It’s what happens after you give it a job. What Qwenwork can actually do: → Research a topic, write the document, generate images, build the webpage, create
Qwen 3.8 27B at 56tps; on 9 year old GPU btw
Nvidia V100 32GB ~$650 on EBay right now! Using Dflash 2; disabling the ECC adds some more speed too! Thinking and prose is a bit slower, but 56-63 tps in code gen! MTP runs faster for prose vs DFlash2 but slower sustained code
Lowk impressed i gave a local Qwen 3.8 my nix repo
Asked it to simplify whatever it can this was the result after 2 hours
Perplexity just put its full AI agent on your computer.
And the security model might be more important than the AI model itself. What changed: → The model, orchestrator, tools, reasoning, and file access can run locally → Launch model: Qwen 3.8 27B, plus Perplexity’s
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