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Qwen 3.8 27B shown interpreting model weights, echoing GPT-6 Astra result

A new paper, Sparks of Weight-Space Programming, reports that LLMs can natively read and write neural network weights, and Qwen 3.8 27B demonstrated this on a laptop.

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Timeline · 2 reports

  1. 2026-11-03 17:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Like GPT-6 Astra, Qwen 3.8 27B can interpret model weights
  2. 2026-11-03 16:29 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

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