Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"

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Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token.

At one-ninth the training cost, it beats much larger competitors like DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and office benchmarks, adding more pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic.


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