Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: 1M-context omni-modal, audio input 98% cheaper
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-19
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, its first agentic omni-modal model: text/image/audio/video in, text out, 1M-token context, built-in reasoning and tool use. Audio input costs over 98% less than the previous omni model, audio-visual over 93% less, at $0.15/M input and $0.47/M output tokens. It beats Gemini 3.8 Flash on audio but loses on pure video reasoning (36.8 vs 45.0 on AgenticVBench). API-only, no open weights, shipped three days after Gemini 3.8 Live.
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