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 beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on 8 of 9 comparable benchmarks, with a 262K native context extensible to 1M. QwenCloud API pricing: $0.16/1M input, $0.47/1M output tokens.