Alibaba's new model beats its predecessor at one-ninth the training cost
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has 125 billion parameters but activates only 6 billion per token. It outperforms a model three times its active size.
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Qwen's new model activates just 6 billion of its 125 billion parameters
Alibaba says it beats the larger previous model at roughly one-ninth the training cost. The release is framed as an architecture preview of Qwen4.
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Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights
Alibaba's Qwen team has published the 27-billion-parameter multimodal Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 licence. The model handles a 262,000-token context natively.
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Alibaba's Qwen Models Surpass 3 Billion Downloads in 6 Months
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen model family surpassed 3 billion downloads globally in six months, outpacing Google and Meta. According to Hugging Face data, Qwen has become the most-derived model in the open-source ecosystem.
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Hugging Face Report: China Takes Lead in Open Models
According to Hugging Face's summer 2026 report, Chinese labs pulled ahead with trillion-parameter open models while U.S. open-source leadership shifted from model labs to hardware makers.
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