modelsSEP 9 17:24 UTC
Qwen 3.8 reportedly matches GPT-5.5 Pro on reasoning prefills
A discussion thread highlights that Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 appears to reproduce the reasoning-prefill behaviour seen in GPT-5.5 Pro. Reasoning prefills let a user seed part of the model's chain of thought to steer how it solves a task. The report gives no benchmark numbers or confirmation from the vendors, so the comparison remains anecdotal.