Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibabas-small-device-model-gains-traction">Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models  —  Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …