Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

15 points
1/21/1970
13 hours ago
by theanonymousone

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vblanco

Insane scores for a model of this size. But it does seem to be a rather insane over-thinker with the biggest token use of any model, which combined with 256k context size it means it wont do much before filling it context

11 hours ago

data-ottawa

It’s definitely a heavy thinker, like most Qwens.

I see strings like “write, now.” In the thinning traces then it goes on to think for a lot longer, so it’s kind of weird.

I haven’t figured out hope to use this effectively yet on my strix halo.

10 hours ago

spwa4

We don't actually know how much thinking GPT and Opus do, the labs won't show us anymore. And they certainly take their time before starting to answer.

10 hours ago

kasperni

Maybe a bit of context for this post? Some people have a life outside of AI.

11 hours ago

toshinoriyagi

This model is a preview of Qwen's upcoming Qwen4 architecture. It is a 125B-A6B MoE model, meaning it has 125B total parameters with 6B active at a time, but it also has a 51B parameter engram with it. The engram is basically a lookup table for tokens to my understanding. It allows the model to have access to a much larger amount of info if utilized well.

They said the model is intentionally under-trained since it is mainly for R&D purposes of proving the new architecture. Many people are excited for models in this range as they are a step above the common ~27B models, while not requiring exorbitant sums of money to run like much larger models.

7 hours ago

glimshe

I got downvoted yesterday for complaining about the name/brand confusion from all these Chinese models with similar names all claiming they are the best. While I'm an AI enthusiast, it's being hard to keep track.

11 hours ago

poincareball

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11 hours ago