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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Open Weights Model Runs on 128GB Macs

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Qwen released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-token multimodal MoE previewing Qwen4 architecture. Community benchmarks show it running at full 262K context on 128GB Macs via oMLX and llama.cpp, with early support limitations.

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Timeline · 4 reports

  1. 2026-08-29 13:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Honey, i shrunk Qwen3. 8-Flash-Next
  2. 2026-08-28 02:25 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at Full 262K Context on a 128GB MacBook
  3. 2026-08-27 12:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Time to Update Those Benchmarks
  4. 2026-08-26 23:52 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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