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Qwen3.8

Qwen3.8 is an open-weight language model from lmstudio-community, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs lmstudio-community 4 variants 2.6M downloads/mo
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About

What Qwen3.8 is

💫 Community Model Qwen3.8-27B by Qwen 👾 LM Studio Community models highlights program. Highlighting new & noteworthy models by the community. Join the conversation on Discord. Model creator: Qwen<br Original model: Qwen3.8-27B<br MLX quantization: provided by LM Studio team using mlxvlm<br Technical Details 4-bit quantized version of Qwen3.8-27B using MLX, optimized for Apple Silicon. Special thanks 🙏 Special thanks to the Apple Machine Learning Research team for creating MLX. Disclaimers LM Studio is not the creator, originator, or owner of any Model featured in the Community Model Program. Each Community Model is created and provided by third parties. LM Studio does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Community Model. You understand that Community Models can produce content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or deceptive. Each Community Model is the sole responsibility of the person or entity who originated such Model. LM Studio may not monitor or control the Community Models and cannot, and does not, take responsibility for any such Model. LM Studio disclaims all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of the Community Models. LM Studio further disclaims any warranty that the Community Model will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise. You will be solely responsible for any damage resulting from your use of or access to the Community Models, your downloading of any Community Model, or use of any other Community Model provided by or through LM Studio.

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerlmstudio-community
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)4.7B
Variants4
Runs withtransformers
Based onQwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Released2026-08-14
Popularity2.6M downloads / month
Likes30
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit4.7BMLXWeights ↗
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-8bit8.0BMLXWeights ↗
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit6.3BMLXWeights ↗
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-5bit5.5BMLXWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys lmstudio-community-qwen3-8 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (lmstudio-community-qwen3-8 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"lmstudio-community-qwen3-8","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers safetensors qwen3_5 image-text-to-text mlx conversational endpoints_compatible 4-bit 8-bit 6-bit 5-bit

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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