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Alibaba Cloud· Released Aug 26

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.

Strata: one-click engine for running the 125B Flash-Next on a gaming PCSep 24

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fabiogreter

@fabiogreter · Sep 11

Extends Perplexity's open Lily inference engine so it can run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on M5 Macs. Shows how a community member adopted a corporate engine for the new model.

humanrouter

@humanrouter · Sep 4

A reproducible recipe with attributed oMLX and MLX patches, setup scripts and raw benchmarks for the 6-bit quant on an M3 Ultra. Written by an Austin AI consultant for people running big models on Macs.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: quick answers

What can you build with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?
People have published 139 public builds made with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. The most common uses are dgx spark (23), amd local (22), gaming gpu (21), local inference (15) and apple silicon (14).
What are the best Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GitHub repos?
The most-starred open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next projects in the index are Strata: one-click engine for running the 125B Flash-Next on a gaming PC, Flash-Next on a single DGX Spark (TP=1) and Halogen: fastest Flash-Next server for AMD Strix Halo.
Are there Qwen3.8-Flash-Next demo videos?
Yes: 2 videos show Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in use, each linked to the original post.
Where do people share Qwen3.8-Flash-Next projects?
Mostly on GitHub, Reddit and X, from 131 creators between Aug 26 and Oct 7.