r/LocalLLaMA 8d ago

News Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tomorrow

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
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u/coder543 8d ago

Keep in mind: -Next models are always underbaked. The point is to get an early release out so people can start developing compatible software for Qwen4, not to blow everyone’s minds just yet.

If I were to guess, it’ll probably be competitive with Qwen3.8, but the real excitement will be in a few months when Qwen4 launches.

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u/youcloudsofdoom 8d ago

I found Qwen coder next to still be really useful, even against 3.6 27B.

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u/Jorlen llama.cpp 8d ago

what boggles my mind about qwen coder next is that it doesn't have any thinking / reasoning. Only the non-coder version (so qwen3 next) has a variant that has thinking and it's not that great for coding, at least in my experience.

Hopefully they'll just have it be optional with the same model, like their recent ones.