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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Open Weights Model Released, Early Qwen4 Architecture Preview

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Qwen released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal MoE open weights model serving as an early preview of Qwen4 architecture. It is large at 125B tokens, with llama.cpp support merged and community benchmarks showing ~30-55 tokens per second on various GPUs.

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-08-27 19:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    llama.cpp support for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has been merged
  2. 2026-08-27 12:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Time to Update Those Benchmarks
  3. 2026-08-26 23:52 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
  4. 2026-08-26 21:11 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8 flash next on 4x v100s
  5. 2026-08-25 12:42 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next announced

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