Qwen3.8

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Qwen3.8 is Alibaba’s current generation, released across August 2026. It is worth a page for two reasons that cut against the family’s reputation: its flagship’s weights are no longer Apache 2.0, and its architecture is no longer a conventional transformer.

Most writing about Qwen describes Qwen3, from April 2025. Four generations have shipped since — Qwen3.5 in February 2026, Qwen3.6 in April, Qwen3.7 in mid-year as a hosted-only release, and Qwen3.8 in August — and both of the changes above happened inside that gap.

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Qwen3.8