Comparison

OpenAI Dots vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

People have published 126 builds with OpenAI Dots and 139 with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, overlapping in 5 use cases. OpenAI Dots has more agents, coding, design examples.

Always-on personal agents inside ChatGPT, announced at DevDay 2026. Each dot runs on GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer and browser, connects to 4,000+ apps, and is reachable via ChatGPT, Slack, Teams or voice. First dot included with Pro and Business Premium.

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Entries: 118
Creators: GitHub, YouTube, X
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Open-weight 125B-parameter multimodal MoE (about 6B active, plus a 51B n-gram embedding table) from Alibaba's Qwen team, an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. Its n-gram table can sit in system RAM or on SSD, which let community engines such as Strata run it on gaming PCs and Macs.

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Entries: 131
Creators: GitHub, Reddit, X
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Same use case, side by side

Use caseOpenAI DotsQwen3.8-Flash-Next

Agents

OpenAI Dots · 37 entriesOpenDots: CopilotKit's self-hostable dots template for any agent harness

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · 2 entriesLocal Hermes Agent on Flash-Next EXL3 with TabbyAPI

Coding

OpenAI Dots · 13 entriesChatGPT Just Changed A LOT (Here’s What’s New)

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · 4 entriesGVS5H: five Qwen3.8 models matching a frontier model on LiveCodeBench Hard

Design

OpenAI Dots · 2 entriesAsking a dot to paint him, then clicking through the dot's own computer

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · 1 entrySame prompt, Flash vs GLM 5.3 Flash: visual demo

Education

OpenAI Dots · 2 entriesdot-green-book - Chinese-language handbook for learning ChatGPT Dot step by step

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · 1 entryStrata makes Flash-Next fast in 12GB VRAM (Japanese)

Games

OpenAI Dots · 1 entryopenaiGame - Browser game created entirely by a dot

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next · 1 entryCosmic Arcade: a one-shot browser game made by local Flash-Next

Top builds with OpenAI Dots

1
OpenAI launch video: your dot is ready to meet youon X:@OpenAI· 17.9K likes17.9K likes
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open-dots: self-hosted agent workspaceon GitHub:Anil-matcha· 5.2K stars5.2K stars
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Sam Altman on using a dot to clear the tasks he dreadson X:Sam Altman· 8.8K likes8.8K likes
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OpenDots: CopilotKit's self-hostable dots template for any agent harnesson X:Atai Barkai· 6.1K likes6.1K likes
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ChatGPT Dots Finally Clicked When I Learned Thison YouTube:Paul J Lipsky· 172.7K views172.7K views

Top builds with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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Strata: one-click engine for running the 125B Flash-Next on a gaming PCon GitHub:Niko1221· 16.8K stars16.8K stars
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Flash-Next on a single DGX Spark (TP=1)on GitHub:MiaAI-Lab· 594 stars594 stars
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Halogen: fastest Flash-Next server for AMD Strix Haloon GitHub:peonist-ai· 876 stars876 stars
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GVS5H: five Qwen3.8 models matching a frontier model on LiveCodeBench Hardon GitHub:slee-persis· 736 stars736 stars
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From 15 tps on llama.cpp to 65 tps with a home-built engineon X:David Hendrickson· 1.6K likes1.6K likes