Perplexity and Nvidia shipped Portable Computer, an agent running Qwen or PPLX 27B on local RTX hardware with no metered tokens until the user allows a cloud step.
London lab Inherent says its Faraday agent, running on a 27B-parameter model, beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at reproducing published scientific findings.
AI4AI-Bench scored six agent systems at 0.166 for rewriting training algorithms. A second paper found seven ways self-improvement gains get miscounted.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 open weights pair a 2.4T mixture-of-experts model with a 27B dense multimodal model sized for a single 24GB consumer GPU.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8 as open weights, pairing a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship with a compact 27B vision-language model.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max leads the Artificial Analysis agentic index, winning through long-horizon persistence rather than top reasoning scores.