It beats a frontier model from 12 months according to this bench: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334544

It is not the whole story, and knowledge is very lacking, but it has gotten a lot of attention. That model together with DeepSeek V4 Flash are the highlights of this summer on the open/local models side.

I have found qwen 3.8's coding quality using opencode to be similar to claude or gpt from 6-9 months ago, except much slower.