Alibaba Qwen Team to Open-Source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and FP8 Version on August 26, 2026
Alibaba's Qwen team plans to open-source the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model and its FP8 version at 11:00 PM Beijing time on August 26, 2026. The model is described as a multimodal mixture-of-experts system built on the next-generation Qwen4 architecture. The Qwen team said the early release is intended to prepare the developer community for the complete Qwen4 model family. As of now, the team has not disclosed further specifications or performance details for the model.
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