Alibaba’s Qwen team is scheduled to open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and an FP8 version at 11 p.m. Beijing time on Aug. 26. The model is described as a multimodal mixture-of-experts system built on the next-generation Qwen4 architecture. Qwen said the early release is intended to give the developer community an opportunity to prepare for the full Qwen4 model family. The team has not yet disclosed further details about the model’s specifications or…