Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 architecture

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a 125B multimodal MoE with 51B N-gram embeddings, activating 6B parameters per token. It beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on 8 of 9 benchmarks. Production version priced at $0.16/1M input and $0.47/1M output tokens.