Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 176B MoE preview of Qwen4

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1. Aug 25
   • Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offerdecrypt.co
   • 4 community posts
2. Aug 26
   • Alibaba’s Qwen to open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 architecturetechnode.com
   • unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · Hugging Facehuggingface.co
   • Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecturemarktechpost.com
   • Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8huggingface.co
   • Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B Model on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Codingdeveloper.nvidia.com
   • 7 community posts
3. Aug 27
   • Qwen3.8-Flash-Nextsimonwillison.net
   • 5 community posts
4. Aug 28
   • This Free AI Just Caught The Billion Dollar Giantsyoutube.com
   • 4 community posts
5. Aug 29
   • orcarouter/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • 5 community posts
6. Aug 30
   • 2 community posts
7. Aug 31
   • RadixArk/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4huggingface.co
   • AtomicChat/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUFhuggingface.co
   • 3 community posts
8. Sep 1
   • On the Design of Qwen3.8-Next Architecture: Evaluation, Efficiency, and Training Stabilityarxiv.org
   • 2 community posts
9. Sep 2
   • Confirmed bolting Q8 NGram into IQ4 Qwen no speed degradation
10. Sep 3
    • 3 community posts
11. Sep 4
    • 3 community posts
12. Sep 5
    • Qwen3.8 Flash Next - Templates Comparison
13. Sep 6
    • Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (Max) is impressive just to talk with.
14. Sep 7
    • Are you running Qwen 3.8 27b or Qwen Flash Next?
15. Sep 8
    • 2 community posts
16. Sep 12
    • Qwen3.8 Flash Next now at 1.2k t/s prefill on Strix Halo
17. Sep 13
    • Qwen3.8 flash next - untrained svg generation
18. Sep 14
    • R9V Update: now ~100 tok/s in TG on Qwen3.8 Flash Next IQ4_XS on x2 R9700 + 128GB RAM. Fixed crashes with n-gram SSD streaming, improved diagnostics, plus pinned images. Q4_K_XL now supported, 50 tok/s TG.
19. Sep 15
    • Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally on a 12GB VRAM card
20. Sep 16
    • 2 community posts
21. Sep 18
    • 2 community posts
22. Sep 19
    • Built this yesterday with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (NVFP4, 262K context) on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark