Qwen researching Qwen
The user is asking me to investigate the system requirements for "Qwen 3.8 Flash Next" from at least 20 different sources.
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- I always feel a little bad asking LLMs to do research into itself or newer versions.
- This sounds like a model that may not exist — "Qwen 3.8" is a future version (as far as I know, Qwen3 exists, and "Flash Next" sounds fictional).
- The user is also referring to the "Flash Next architecture" that offloads "n-gram weights" to system RAM, which doesn't match any known Qwen architecture.
- If you were wondering, I was asking whether I should even bother trying QFN on R9700 + 32 GB system ram:
Sources (1)
- [1]Qwen researching Qwenr/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 21, 08:21 PM
The user is asking me to investigate the system requirements for "Qwen 3.8 Flash Next" from at least 20 different sources.
I always feel a little bad asking LLMs to do research into itself or newer versions.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 20, 2026Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Opus 5.5: Six-way benchmark on a real Rust feature with Claude Code and Pi
- Oct 20, 2026ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-122B (Qwen finetune)
- Oct 20, 2026Voxtral 3
- Oct 20, 2026[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
- Oct 19, 2026Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: 2026 year-to-date in review
- Oct 19, 2026Always On - A collaboration between two LLMs
