Is all the work that's being put into Qwen3.8 Flash Next going to set us up for a very quick uplift to Qwen4?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 10/04/26, 01:52 AM Models

Summary

The author asks whether the extensive inference optimizations going into Qwen3.8 Flash Next will position Alibaba to quickly uplift those gains to Qwen4 when it releases.

Given the commentary on the Q3.8FN release page here https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next I assume/hope that all the work that's going on to optimise the hell out of running it will be useful when Qwen4 drops?

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