Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE)…

Alibaba's Qwen team is teasing its next architecture a day early—and the specs say it runs near-frontier scale on a fraction of the power.

Alibaba’s Qwen team is scheduled to open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and an FP8 version at 11 p.m. Beijing time on Aug. 26. The model is described as a