Qwen3.8-2.4T Suspected to Be Text-Only Version; Multimodality as a Commercial Edge?
xhluca · x · 2026-08-13
A developer speculates that Qwen3.8-2.4T is actually a text-only version of Qwen3.8-Max.
They wonder if multimodality has become a significant commercial advantage, noting that most recently released open-source models are text-only, with very few being multimodal. They also suspect that the multimodal capabilities of Qwen3.8-2.4T might have been disabled post-hoc.
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