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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 27, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Alibaba's Qwen Team Previews Its Qwen4 Architecture With a 6-Billion-Active-Parameter Open Model
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next pairs a 125-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts core with 51 billion parameters of N-gram lookup memory and was trained for a ninth of the cost of its predecessor.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that the team describes as an early preview of the architecture intended for Qwen4. The checkpoint totals about 180 billion parameters…
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