Qwen 3.8 27B: The Open-Weight Titan Challenging Closed Frontier Models
Author(s): Pop123 Originally published on Towards AI. How Alibaba’s 27B hybrid multimodal architecture delivers Opus-level coding and computer use directly to consumer hardware. In mid-August 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen research team shipped Qwen 3.8 27B under the Apache 2.0 license. Rather than offering …
How DeepSeek Taught AI to Think for Itself: The Breakthrough Behind the R1 Revolution
Author(s): Pop123 Originally published on Towards AI. How DeepSeek Taught AI to Think for Itself: The Breakthrough Behind the R1 Revolution From ‘Eureka’ moments to grading on a curve — how a simple change in reinforcement learning created an AI that corrects …