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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Alibaba · Qwen Flash line · lightweight · open weights

Released August 26, 2026Latest in the line

What changed

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.

Where the Qwen Flash line stands

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is the current model in this line. The card shows 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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  1. Aug 26, 2026Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · this page

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