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Alibaba's Qwen previews Qwen4 architecture with NVIDIA fine-tuning support

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an experimental open-weight model that offers a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture. NVIDIA has provided day-zero support for fine-tuning this model using its NeMo AutoModel and NeMo RL frameworks. This integration allows developers to adapt the model for specific applications, with additional support for running it via SGL and vLLM. AI

IMPACT Enables developers to fine-tune the Qwen model for specific use cases, potentially accelerating specialized AI applications.

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

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Alibaba's Qwen previews Qwen4 architecture with NVIDIA fine-tuning support

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

    Thank you @NVIDIAAI for the day-0 support! 🙌

    Thank you @NVIDIAAI for the day-0 support! 🙌 Developers can finetune the model for domain-specific use cases using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: https://t.co/H7aiTJcJ9j