Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: 125B Multimodal MoE Preview of Qwen4
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-08-27
Another open weights model from Qwen, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a multimodal MoE model serving as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4. It features 125B total parameters but only 6B active parameters. Testing on a DGX Spark using Unsloth quantized models (UD-IQ1S and UD-Q2KXL) revealed generated images and reasoning capabilities.
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