Qwen and GLM release new MoE models focusing on low cost and high performance
thione · x · 2026-08-31
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model designed for significantly lower training and inference costs. Simultaneously, Zhipu GLM released open-weight GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter MoE model aimed at achieving frontier coding performance at low cost.
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