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. Native 262K context, extensible to 1M with YaRN; QwenCloud API pricing at $0.16/1M input and $0.47/1M output tokens.