Comparison

Laya vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

People have published 172 builds with Laya and 139 with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, overlapping in 4 use cases. Laya has more games, agents, coding examples.

Open-source (Apache 2.0) non-autoregressive System 1 decision engine from ConvAI Innovations. It returns typed choice, score and yes/no answers with calibrated probabilities in one forward pass of about 33 ms, across 100+ languages, as an open-weights counterpart to TypeSafe AI's closed Jev.

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Entries: 167
Creators: GitHub, X, Web
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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 caseLayaQwen3.8-Flash-Next

Games

Laya · 42 entrieslaya-mlx plays Snake at 60 decisions per second

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

Agents

Laya · 31 entrieskeel: Local-first macOS coding workspace that uses local Laya, with optional Jev, to…

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

Coding

Laya · 7 entriesSwitchboard: route Claude Code and Codex to the right model and effort

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

Education

Laya · 5 entriesOpen-Source Jev? Install Laya Locally + 3 Useful Demos

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

Top builds with Laya

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Laya-CoreML: 4.98 ms decisions on the Neural Engine, 2.78x better energy than MLXon GitHub:mizorewww· 1.6K stars1.6K stars
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laya-mlx plays Snake at 60 decisions per secondon X:雨夹雪❄️· 14.1K likes14.1K likes
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Local Laya beats cloud Jev at Tetrison X:atomic.chat· 6.2K likes6.2K likes
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keel: Local-first macOS coding workspace that uses local Laya, with optional Jev, to…on GitHub:codejunkie99· 329 stars329 stars
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Laya Is INSANE… Open-Source AI Just Challenged Jev!on YouTube:AI WITH Rithesh· 73.6K views73.6K 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