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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B preview weights for agentic coding

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Alibaba has released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, serving as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate.

The model is a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) with 176B total parameters, including 51B N-gram embedding parameters.
It activates 6B parameters per token while maintaining a native 262,144-token context window.
The context window is extensible to 1M tokens using YaRN.

This release allows developers to evaluate the new architecture's capabilities for agentic coding tasks before the official Qwen4 launch.

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