Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8 Flash: 125B MoE Architecture, 20x Cheaper
yacineMTB · x · 2026-08-30
Alibaba released Qwen3.8 Flash, the third model in the Qwen3.8 series following Max and 27B. It uses a 125B MoE architecture with only 6B active parameters per token. Compared to Qwen3.8 Max, Flash is 20x cheaper and 2x faster, often delivering comparable performance. The hosted version includes a 1M token context window and built-in tools.
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