Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next Open-Weight Model Released, Showcasing Qwen4 Architecture
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Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next, a multimodal MoE open-weights model previewing Qwen4 architecture. Community benchmarks show strong performance and local deployment speeds, though enterprise adoption faces complicating factors beyond low token price.
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- 2026-08-27 22:30 · r/LocalLLM
Unsloth Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 4bit = 25 tok/s - 2026-08-27 21:59 · r/LocalLLM
EngramHalo.cpp: Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on Strix Halo — 23.5 → 39 tok/s, working MTP, 27 GB engram table on SSD - 2026-08-27 12:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Time to Update Those Benchmarks - 2026-08-26 23:52 · Simon Willison's Weblog
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - 2026-08-26 20:18 · AI Business
Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is Cheap, But There Are Complicating Factors - 2026-08-26 16:40 · r/LocalLLM
Will expert CPU offloading yield similar gain in decode/prefill for Qwen 3.8 flash next? - 2026-08-26 16:29 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 on Single RTX Pro 6000 - 120t/s tg + 9-10k prefill at 256k context - 2026-08-26 13:36 · r/singularity
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: Beating DS V4 Flash at half the parameters, stronger than Opus 4.6 - 2026-08-26 13:33 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next - 2026-08-25 12:23 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next day 0 support from unsloth