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

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a 125B multimodal MoE with 51B N-gram embeddings, activating only 6B parameters per token. It beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on 8 of 9 comparable benchmarks, including SWE-bench Pro and GPQA Diamond. NVIDIA provides Day 0 support on GB300 NVL72.