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Alibaba Cloud·Qwen

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

A Qwen4 architecture preview: 125B main model plus 51B N-gram embeddings, 6B active per token, extendable to 1M context.

CurrentReasoningCodingAgentMultimodalOpen weights
MODEL NUMBER116
First public date
2026-08-26
Organization
Alibaba Cloud
Family
Qwen
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Specifications

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Total parameters
176B↗
Active parameters
6B↗
Architecture
Hybrid↗
Parameter scope
The roughly 125B main model, 51B N-gram embedding, and MTP components are separate scopes; about 6B is active per token.↗
Context
262,144 tokens
Input modalities
Text · Image
Open weights
Yes
License
Apache-2.0
Status
Current
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Overview

Release dates

— Qwen3.8-Flash-Next released open weights and became available as managed Qwen3.8-Flash. ↗

Why it mattered

It introduced QSA, Gated Residual, and N-gram memory to reduce compute while advancing long-context agents.

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Architecture & capabilities

Attention

Gated DeltaNetQwen Sparse Attention

Model capabilities

CodingAgentLong context

API features

Adjustable reasoning
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Release history

Open weights

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next released open weights and became available as managed Qwen3.8-Flash.

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