Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offer
In brief Alibaba's Qwen team is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a Mixture-of-Experts model described as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The team's pre-release briefing cites 125 billion total parameters with only 6 billion active per token.
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- Fact 1: In brief Alibaba's Qwen team is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a Mixture-of-Experts model described as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture.
- Fact 2: The team's pre-release briefing cites 125 billion total parameters with only 6 billion active per token.
- Fact 3: Alibaba is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a 125-billion-parameter model that activates just 6 billion per token.
- Fact 4: The Qwen team framed it as a preview of the next-generation Qwen 4 architecture, not a finished flagship.
In brief Alibaba's Qwen team is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a Mixture-of-Experts model described as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The team's pre-release briefing cites 125 billion total parameters with only 6 billion active per token.
Hard benchmark scores haven't been published yet, and the weights aren't live on ModelScope as of this writing. Alibaba is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a 125-billion-parameter model that activates just 6 billion per token. The Qwen team framed it as a preview of the next-generation Qwen 4 architecture, not a finished flagship.
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Original source: Decrypt
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