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OpenRouter artwork for the Qwen3.8-27B model route
AI Research14 Aug 2026

Qwen3.8-27B Ships Open Weights with 262K Context

Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. The dense vision-language model has a native 262,144-token context, adjustable reasoning, image and video input, and a live OpenRouter route while Qwen Cloud hosting remains pending.

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AZ Labs artwork showing the dots3-note preview name and its core model specifications
AI Research14 Aug 2026

Dots3-Note Preview Opens a 280B Multimodal Agent Model

Dots Studio has released dots3-note preview, its first open-weight dots3 model. The multimodal MoE has 280 billion total parameters, 16 billion active parameters, a 512K context window, and an Apache 2.0 release.

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Meta Muse Glimmer 30B model artwork from its Hugging Face model card
AI Research10 Aug 2026

Meta Muse Glimmer 30B: An Open-Weight Agentic Model Built to Run Locally

Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer 30B, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark and tuned for local agent workflows on consumer GPUs. It covers tool use, long-context reasoning and multimodal input in a package that fits under 20 GB with 4-bit quantisation.

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