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Alibaba releases open-source AI model that can run on MacBook

Alibaba has released an open-source multimodal AI model, Qwen3.8-27B, optimised for local use, including its weights under an Apache 2.0 licence. The company also plans to publish weights for its top model, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, letting developers choose between lightweight local models and frontier-grade agent tasks. Alibaba says Qwen3.8-27B can run on high-end MacBook Pro or Mac Studio systems and supports up to 1,000,000 tokens with YaRN.