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Qwen Flash

Alibaba · lightweight line · open weights

1 release since 2026Latest: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Alibaba · Qwen Flash line · lightweight · open weights
New linefirst release Aug 26, 2026 — no rhythm to measure yet

Open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 125B total parameters but only 6B active per token, a 262K native context window and a built-in vision encoder, previewing the Qwen4 architecture.

Released Aug 26, 2026 · what changed →
Days since last release
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · Aug 26, 2026
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.

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Open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 125B total parameters but only 6B active per token, a 262K native context window and a built-in vision encoder, previewing the Qwen4 architecture.

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