Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Flash Model

Alibaba Qwen has released the Qwen3.8-Flash model. As described, this is a multimodal MoE model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The production version of Qwen3.8-Flash will soon be available via the Qwen Cloud API, priced at just $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens. With 125 billion parameters plus 51 billion N-gram embedding parameters, it activates only 6 billion parameters per token, achieving extremely high cost efficiency.