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Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Flash multimodal model

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Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model that serves as an early preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture. This open-weight model is now accessible via the QwenCloud API, with pricing set at $0.16 per 1 million input tokens and $0.47 per 1 million output tokens for the production version. The model boasts 125 billion parameters and an additional 51 billion N-gram parameters. AI

IMPACT This release provides a new multimodal MoE model and an early look at the Qwen4 architecture, potentially influencing the development of similar models and offering competitive pricing for API access.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Flash multimodal model

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  1. X — Qwen (Alibaba) TIER_1 English(EN) · Alibaba_Qwen ·

    API is live on QwenCloud: https://t.co/nz3wibv0Lv

    API is live on QwenCloud: https://t.co/nz3wibv0Lv 🙌Let's build something!

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