Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a cheap fast omni model for text, image, audio and video
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-18
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a cheap and fast omni model that takes text, image, audio and video as input in one brain and answers in text. The company claims roughly a 25% capability improvement over the previous Omni model, and positions it as a Gemini 3.8 Flash-class swap for audio/video understanding.
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