Old Zhang's AI Learning

Oct 11, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Qwen4-Max & Qwen4-27B Coming: Open-Source Plans & Qwen3.8-27B Deployment Insights

The author covers Alibaba Qwen team's upcoming Qwen4 family with open-source plans, surveys recent global AI model releases, notes a slowdown in Chinese model updates, shares hands-on testing of Qwen3.8-27B quantization variants on A100 and 4090 GPUs, and recommends FP8 for dual-4090 and GGUF UD-Q4+ for single-4090 setups.