27 August 2026
Qwen releases early preview of next-generation multimodal model
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- Qwen, a Chinese AI lab, released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a model that can process both text and images with open weights (publicly available code).
- The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, meaning it activates different specialized components for different tasks, reducing computational cost while maintaining performance.
