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August 16, 2026
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Qwen 3.8 27B Launches with Vision Support and a 262K Context Window—But Its Default Settings Cause Massive Overthinking
Alibaba's Qwen research lab has released Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2.0 licensed, vision-capable model with a 262,144-token context window. Independent testing found the model's default 'xhigh' reasoning setting causes it to massively overthink simple prompts, turning quick tasks into 20-minute ordeals.