Aug 26 2026

Alibaba open-weights Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a preview of the Qwen4 architecture: 125B parameters with 6B active, 51B of n-gram embeddings, 262K context, multimodal, in standard and FP8 checkpoints.

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