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Qwen 3.8 27B ships thinking at maximum, and one setting stands between you and 22,000 tokens
Alibaba's new 27B model defaults reasoning_effort to xhigh. Simon Willison measured 22,276 reasoning tokens and 21 minutes for one SVG that took two minutes with reasoning off.
Publishers:simonwillison.net
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