Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Open Weights Model Gains Rapid Local Inference Support
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Qwen released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-token multimodal MoE with 6B active parameters, matching larger models. Community benchmarks show day-0 Unsloth quant and llama.cpp support, with speeds up to 400 t/s on multi-GPU setups and full 262K context on 128GB Macs.
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- 2026-08-29 06:07 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
How a 6B-Active Model Beats 17B-Active Ones: What Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Actually Changed - 2026-08-28 10:55 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (UD-IQ4_XS) on 2x RTX 3060 + 7800X3D, from initial 36 tps prefill to 400 tps and other benchmarks (-sm tensor trap) + VRAM/RAM usage - 2026-08-28 02:25 · r/LocalLLM
Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at Full 262K Context on a 128GB MacBook - 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 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 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 07:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
[Megathread] Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - Release Day - 2026-08-26 06:46 · TechNode
Alibaba’s Qwen to open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 architecture