Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Alibaba's Qwen team has unveiled Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model previewing its upcoming Qwen4 architecture. The architecture activates 6 billion parameters per token out of a total 125 billion parameters. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
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- Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"The Decoder · Independent reporting ·