A new 27B on-device model joins the Local AI catalog, at a size that fits comfortably where the model it succeeds was a tight squeeze.
  • Qwen 3.8 27B ships at Unsloth's Dynamic v3.0 quant, around 10.93 GB, against roughly 18 GB for Qwen 3.6 27B.
  • On a 24 GB Mac that is the difference between a tight fit and a comfortable one.
  • Download it under
    Settings
    then
    Speech & AI
    then
    Local AI
    .
  • Qwen 3.6 27B is archived rather than removed. If you already downloaded it, it keeps working and you can still delete it to free space.