--- title: "Qwen — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Qwen (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Qwen Qwen is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 19 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 21 to Sep 22 (peak 49 on Sep 21). Alibaba's family of open-weight models (Qwen3.8 and the Max/Flash/Omni variants). First seen on Hacker News · Sep 16 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0.5 / 100 · +0.5 in 1 day · −18.8 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 49.1 on Sep 21, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Official site:** [qwen.ai](https://qwen.ai) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 25 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 828 - **Share of voice:** 1.5% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Reddit | posts | 90 | 87 | 1× | no | 100% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Qwen 4 Announced at Apsara Conference](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wmxfjs/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 22 · score 1,976 · 523 comments 2. [Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next \(125B MoE\) on a 8GB+ NVIDIA GPU: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input.](https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata) — GitHub (Niko1221) · Sep 24 · score 990 3. [Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo](https://huggingface.co/Viggle/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo) — Hugging Face Hub (trending + orgs) (Viggle) · Sep 22 · score 376 4. [Ovis-Embedding: Pushing the Frontiers of Universal Omni-Modal Embeddings](https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.25165) — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 23 · score 74 · 2 comments 5. [\[AINews\] The Future of Latent Space](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-the-future-of-latent-space) — AI newsletters (RSS) (AINews) · Sep 25 · score 66 · 2 comments 6. [Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815568) — Hacker News · Sep 23 · score 4 · 10 comments 7. [Gestern für eine #Fehleranalyse das erste Mal ausführlicher eine online #KI verwendet. Bisher hatte ich nur lokal auf meinem #framework13 mit #qwen herum gegurkt 🙂. Bin gut mit der kostenlosen Versio…](https://graz.social/@di0v0n/117330119163602817) — Mastodon (fediverse) (graz.social) · Sep 25 · score 4 · 2 comments 8. [Local AI on a 16GB M4 Mac: 62 seconds to drafts, not publication](https://dev.to/_nextquestion_/local-ai-on-a-16gb-m4-mac-62-seconds-to-drafts-not-publication-4b05) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 23 · score 5 · 1 comment 9. [Modifying a Qwen 2.5 Omni 3B model architecture to stop visual interference when slide context is given along with audio](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/modifying-a-qwen-2-5-omni-3b-model-architecture-to-stop-visual-interference-when-slide-context-is-given-along-with-audio/180749) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Hugging Face Forums) · Sep 26 · score 1 · 2 comments 10. [Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime](https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime) — OpenRouter (qwen) · Sep 23 11. [Qwen-3.8-27B is good enough that I stopped using API](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wp0z3i/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 24 · score 595 · 249 comments 12. [UkisAI Swift Series / 27B, Flash Next and Bonsai 2 + GSQ-RCO / -63.4% thinking, x1.95 speed with xhigh accuracy](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wp6gal/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 24 · score 304 · 238 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 706 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 91% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 17% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 14% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 7.1% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 4.4% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 1.6% of its stories ## Related topics - **Competes with:** [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md) - **Related to:** [Edge0](https://abovethefog.app/topics/edge0.md) - **Part of:** [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Local inference](https://abovethefog.app/topics/local_inference.md) (514 stories), [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md) (166 stories), [Gemma](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemma.md) (89 stories), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) (67 stories), [Llama](https://abovethefog.app/topics/llama.md) (33 stories), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md) (18 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 5.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 7.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 44.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 49.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 20, 2026 | 19.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 19, 2026 | 2.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 41.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 17, 2026 | 9.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 19.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 8.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 7.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 1.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 2.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 8.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 10 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Qwen in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=qwen) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)