Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
im not bothered by it.
but also… i wouldn’t use it as my sole model to perform every task.
[waves hand toward huggingface.] ( a gazillion bajillion models, specialized for all types of tasks).
edit: i checked. and there aren’t as many models as i expected, for this task(didnt test them). and… small multimodal model failed badly(see picture of the iguana … or whatever the hell that is)
it’s a strange benchmark. but it seems reasonable to expect LLMs to be able to do this.
im not bothered by it.
but also… i wouldn’t use it as my sole model to perform every task. [waves hand toward huggingface.] ( a gazillion bajillion models, specialized for all types of tasks).
edit: i checked. and there aren’t as many models as i expected, for this task(didnt test them). and… small multimodal model failed badly(see picture of the iguana … or whatever the hell that is)
it’s a strange benchmark. but it seems reasonable to expect LLMs to be able to do this.