Qwen 3 27B completes reverse-engineering task in 30 minutes, rivaling frontier models

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A writer at XDA Developers tested Alibaba's Qwen 3 27B language model by assigning it a real-world reverse-engineering task. The model completed the job in approximately 30 minutes, impressing the tester with its performance. The result suggests that mid-sized open models like Qwen 3 27B are closing the gap with larger frontier AI systems. The test highlights growing capabilities of locally runnable models for complex technical tasks such as code and binary analysis.

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