Thomas Kim PRO

The plan is one model that supports both reasoning and non-reasoning modes through Qwen3.8’s canonical chat template, rather than separate versions. FP8, GGUF, NVFP4, and the XL quants will all be variants of that same model.

Hi akierum,

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.

I stepped back from pi-tune for a while, but I am happy to confirm an upcoming Qwen3.8-27B-pi-tune. I aim to complete the full release by next Friday, 09/11/26.

I am trying my best to adhere to Qwen3.8's canonical reasoning template and intended reasoning behaviors with the target of harness/tool fluency and token efficiency. The upcoming release will be one model with FP8, GGUF, NVFP4, etc.... I will be including a diverse set of benchmarks and (hopefully) an interesting accompanying write-up.

As for the planned Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, I spent a lot of time training it and wasn't happy with it. I decided not to ship it as I couldn't recommend it over the 27B, and it exhibited functional and behavioral concerns. I've since concluded that future MoE model releases from the Qwen family will require a more planned and informed approach as to not degrade the base model.

I'm finalizing 3.8-27B now and have interesting plans for 3.5-9B afterwards.

As for the XL quants, I'll make sure they're in this release. And thanks again for the evaluation data. If anything else turns up, feel free to send it over, I'm always glad to see data from real use.