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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

L3 · BuilderModels & ReleasesSimon Willison's Blog· 8/26/2026

Provides hands-on testing insights for builders exploring advanced model architectures and quantization techniques.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a new 125B Mixture-of-Experts model that serves as an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, with only 6B active parameters for performance efficiency.

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