Qwen asked to research its own fictional successor correctly calls it fake
mailto_devnull · reddit · 2026-10-22
A Reddit user asked Qwen to investigate a nonexistent "Qwen 3.8 Flash Next" model, joking that asking an LLM to research itself feels like confronting mortality. The model's reasoning shows it correctly flagging that Qwen3 is the latest known version, that "3.8" is a future version, and that the described "Flash Next architecture" offloading n-gram weights to RAM matches no known Qwen architecture.
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