Qwen team announces the upcoming release of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model built on the next-generation Qwen4 architecture. The 125B-parameter model (with 6B active) will be available on Model Scope starting August 26, 2026, in both standard and FP8 versions. This early release aims to help the community prepare for the full Qwen4 model family.

We are releasing these architectural advancements early to help the community prepare for the upcoming Qwen4 model family.