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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Open-Weight Model Draws Rapid Community Adoption

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Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-parameter multimodal MoE model previewing Qwen4 architecture. Within a day, llama.cpp merged support, and users reported running it on various hardware, achieving 23-55 tokens per second depending on setup.

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Timeline · 21 reports

  1. 2026-08-27 22:30 · r/LocalLLM
    Unsloth Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 4bit = 25 tok/s
  2. 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
  3. 2026-08-27 19:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    llama.cpp support for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has been merged
  4. 2026-08-27 12:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Time to Update Those Benchmarks
  5. 2026-08-26 23:52 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
  6. 2026-08-26 21:11 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8 flash next on 4x v100s
  7. 2026-08-26 20:18 · AI Business
    Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is Cheap, But There Are Complicating Factors
  8. 2026-08-26 18:46 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B-A6B) running on Strix Halo 128gb: 23 t/s decode, 390 t/s prefill, built from the llama.cpp PR
  9. 2026-08-26 18:10 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next MoE 125B A6B But
  10. 2026-08-26 16:40 · r/LocalLLM
    Will expert CPU offloading yield similar gain in decode/prefill for Qwen 3.8 flash next?
  11. 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
  12. 2026-08-26 15:36 · r/machinelearningnews
    Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture
  13. 2026-08-26 15:20 · MarkTechPost
    Alibaba's Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture
  14. 2026-08-26 13:55 · Unite.AI
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With 6B Active Parameters
  15. 2026-08-26 13:42 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next blog and model card
  16. 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
  17. 2026-08-26 13:33 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 Flash Next
  18. 2026-08-26 07:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Megathread] Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - Release Day
  19. 2026-08-25 12:42 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next announced
  20. 2026-08-25 11:13 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8 flash next
  21. 2026-08-25 11:13 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tomorrow

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  6. Qwen Developers on X: "Qwen-Image 2.1 is going open source" — r/StableDiffusion
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  8. 10 hours left fo Qwen Image 2.1 Public Open Source Release — r/comfyui

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