Alibaba’s Qwen has released a new multimodal model, Qwen3.8-Flash, that delivers stronger coding ​and office-task performance while cutting training costs, ‌it said in a statement on Wednesday published on social media. As e-commerce growth stagnates, AI has become ​the biggest driver of revenue growth for ​the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant. Its ⁠Qwen AI models are some of the ​most popular in China, where competition is intensifying ​in the sector. Qwen3.8-Flash supports a default context window of 262,144 tokens, expandable to 1 million tokens, enabling it ​to handle large files, lengthy conversations and ​extensive research materials.
Compared with its previous Qwen3.7-Plus model, Alibaba said ‌it ⁠requires about one-ninth of the training cost. Qwen said it would charge 1 yuan ($0.1488) per million input tokens and 3 yuan per million output ​tokens for ​access through ⁠its application programming interface. It also released open-source weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, allowing the ​developer community to evaluate an architecture ​that ⁠Qwen said would serve as a prototype for its next-generation Qwen4 model family.

Full report : Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash.