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Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next From Alibaba: The First Look at Qwen 4

The 125-billion-parameter model uses only 6 billion active parameters per token and is available as open weights for local deployment.

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Alibaba’s Qwen team didn’t wait for a big stage. On August 26, 2026, they quietly released Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next — a 125 billion parameter AI model that’s designed to run on hardware most developers already own. It’s not the finished Qwen 4. It’s the architecture preview, the sneak peek that tells developers what’s coming and lets them start building now. Here’s what’s inside, what’s missing, and why it matters. What Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next Actually I…

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Alibaba continues to accelerate on open models with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a new multimodal model Mixture-of-Experts thought to be an advanced overview of architecture that will serve as a basis for Qwen4. On paper, the recipe is ambitious: 125 billion parameters for the main model, 51 billion more dedicated to N-gram Embeddings, but only 6 billion [...] L的article Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: 125 billion parameters, 1 million tokens and an overview of Qwen4…

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TechNode broke the news on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
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