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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

Qwen News · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

In this release we are opening the weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4. It plays the same role that Qwen3-Next played for Qwen3.5: the hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention design introduced at that time has since been used across the Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6, Qwen3.7 and Qwen3.8 series. We are again releasing the a

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First collected: 2026-09-23T00:41:11.323Z. This is not the publication date.