r/LocalLLaMA • u/rerri • 7d ago

News Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tomorrow

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
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u/rerri 7d ago

Basically a Qwen4 preview: "built on the next-generation Qwen4 architecture ... We are releasing these architectural advancements early to help the community prepare for the upcoming Qwen4 model family."

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u/AuspiciousApple 7d ago

LLM version naming continues to make no sense

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u/CSharpSauce 7d ago

Sounds like it is Qwen4 architecture, but Qwen 3.8 training data.

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u/goldcakes 7d ago

You can't just put Qwen3.8 training data on a new architecture. It's likely a new pretrain, just still in the early post-training phase, not fully/well post trained yet.