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Close-up of a black Gigabyte graphics card — the kind of GPU that runs Qwen3.8-27B at 4-bit in 24 GB of VRAM

Qwen 3.8-27B: 73 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and Still a 24 GB Model

Qwen 3.8-27B is the new dense flagship you can run on a single 24-32 GB GPU. It jumps to 73.0 on Terminal Bench 2.1 (up from 63.4), adds native image and hour-scale video understanding, and ships under Apache 2.0. What changed versus Qwen3.6-27B, how to run it at 4-bit, and the catches I would watch.

Rainbow prism light spectrum spread across a dark surface

Gemma 4: Google's Open Model Family Goes Multimodal

Google released Gemma 4 on April 2, 2026 — four variants from 2B to 31B, with 256K context, native vision and audio, and Apache 2.0 licensing. Here's what it's for, where it fits, and how to run it.