qwen3-8 by Alibaba Cloud

7 tracked versions of the qwen3-8 family. Timeline ordered newest → oldest. Flagship version marked.

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    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model from Qwen and the open-weight variant of [Qwen3.8 Max](/qwen/qwen3.8-max), with 95 billion active parameters out of 2.4 trillion total. It is...

  2. Qwen3.8 27BOpen-weight
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    Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. It is suited for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks, with flexible thinking that can be...

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    Qwen3.8 Flash-Next is an open-weight vision-language checkpoint exploring efficient long-context architectures. The language backbone has 125B parameters with 6B active, plus 51B n-gram embeddings and 4B multi-token prediction parameters.

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    Qwen3.8 LiveTranslate Flash Realtime translates live speech with optional visual context and speaker separation. The documentation lists 60 input/translation languages: 29 support speech and text output, while 31 support text output only.

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    Qwen3.8 Max is Alibaba Cloud’s hosted flagship for reasoning, coding, visual understanding and agent workflows. Alibaba released the qwen3.8-max-0902 snapshot on September 2, 2026, with a one-million-token context and updated coding and multimodal capabilities.

  6. 2026-09-17
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    Qwen3.8 Omni Flash understands text, images, audio and video and returns text. It supports multimodal summaries, content analysis, thinking modes, function calling, web search and context caching. This model does not generate speech or video.

  7. 2026-08-26
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    Qwen3.8 Flash is a hosted multimodal model for code, reasoning and visual understanding. It accepts text, images and video, returns text, and provides a native one-million-token context with tool calling and structured outputs.

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