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. The model uses Gated DeltaNet and Qwen Sparse Attention for efficient long-context inference.