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ALIBABA'S QWEN3.8-FLASH-NEXT CUTS COSTS WITH NEW ARCHITECTURE

Alibaba's Qwen team unveiled Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates only 6 of 125 billion parameters per token. The model achieves competitive performance at one-ninth the training cost of larger rivals.

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Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activa…