Alibaba drops Qwen3.8-Flash: 125B open-weight MoE with 6B active params
Alibaba just launched Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight multimodal MoE model with a 125B backbone that activates just 6B parameters per token. It handles 262K native context, previews the upcoming Qwen4 architecture, and cuts API input costs to $0.16 per million tokens while matching heavyweights in coding benchmarks. Weights are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope.