Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B MoE previewing Qwen4
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The open-weight multimodal MoE activates only 6B parameters per token, pairing a 125B backbone with a 51B N-gram embedding table and a 4B multi-token prediction module. It has a native 262,144-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens with YaRN.
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