ResearchOctober 31, 2026
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Five Qwen Models Beat Fable 5
A team of five Qwen3.8-27B models outperforms Fable 5 on the demanding LiveCodeBench Hard benchmark using a multi-agent setup.
#multi-agent#LiveCodeBench#Qwen#benchmark#open-source
🔥 What happened
A new multi-agent system called team-solve hit 9.8/10 on LiveCodeBench Hard using five Qwen3.8-27B models – beating the original harness (9.6) and crushing Fable 5 alone (8.0). The entire codebase was generated by an AI from a method description.
💡 Why it matters
The kicker: a simple shell script decides success, not a model. 49 of 50 runs solved, total cost: $35.79 for 15.3M output tokens. This proves multi-agent pipelines are dirt cheap today – and that orchestration matters more than the base model.
⚡ Our take
The real story isn't the score – it's that nobody hand-wrote the files. If a 27B model can build a better harness than humans, we should start questioning our own jobs.
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