Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 architecture
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a multimodal MoE with 125B parameters plus 51B N-gram embeddings, activating only 6B per token. It has a 262K native context (extensible to 1M with YaRN) and beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on 8 of 9 comparable benchmarks. QwenCloud API pricing: $0.16/1M input and $0.47/1M output tokens.
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Alibaba’s Qwen to open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 architecturetechnode.com
unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUFhuggingface.co
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecturemarktechpost.com
Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B Model on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Codingdeveloper.nvidia.com
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