Qwen3.8 Flash Next

Qwen3.8 Flash Next is an open-weight multimodal MoE from Alibaba's Qwen team, released August 2026 as an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. A 125B-parameter backbone with 51B N-gram embeddings and a 4B multi-token prediction module activates only 6B parameters per token. It introduces a GDN + Qwen Sparse Attention hybrid, Gated Residual and N-gram Embedding, and reportedly costs about one-ninth of Qwen3.7-Plus to train. Native 262K context, extensible to 1M with YaRN. Licensed under the Qwen community license (not Apache-2.0).