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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- 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 19:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
llama.cpp support for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has been merged - 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 21:11 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen3.8 flash next on 4x v100s - 2026-08-26 20:18 · AI Business
Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is Cheap, But There Are Complicating Factors - 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 - 2026-08-26 18:10 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next MoE 125B A6B But - 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 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 - 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 - 2026-08-26 13:55 · Unite.AI
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With 6B Active Parameters - 2026-08-26 13:42 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next blog and model card - 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 - 2026-08-26 07:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
[Megathread] Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - Release Day - 2026-08-25 12:42 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next announced - 2026-08-25 11:13 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen3.8 flash next - 2026-08-25 11:13 · r/LocalLLaMA
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