Qwen 3.8 27B is a game changer.

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Our devs got their hands on it a few days ago. One wired it into Codex to compare with GPT Luna, our usual workhorse right now for its cost effectiveness. Another tried it out on one of our OCR pipelines. It's comparable to Luna for coding and ***OCR quality appears to be better than Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite***. That's huge. We pay a ton of money for OCR. This is the first local model that feels like more than a toy. It's truly as capable as the frontier models from a year ago. For the fir