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Models2026-08-27 · source-backed
The repo appeared August 24, opening the weights of a multimodal MoE that Qwen frames explicitly as an architecture preview, the same role Qwen3-Next played for Qwen3.5 (GitHub). The hybrid Gated DeltaNet plus Gated Attention design it previews already carried through the Qwen3.5 to Qwen3.8 series. Downstream corroboration arrived fast: ollama v0.33.1 lists MLX support and transformers v5.16.0 added the related Qwen4-Exp. A 235-upvote r/LocalLLaMA gallery on August 27 shows it beating DeepSeek V4 Pro on comparison benchmarks, with the practitioner caveat that llama.cpp support is still an unmerged PR, MTP doesn't work, and KV cache scaling is odd (r/LocalLLaMA). Running it locally this week means compiling a PR.
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Alibaba released Qwen / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Alibaba released Qwen); both cover August, Flash, LocalLLaMA, Next; overlapping topics (already, architecture, attention, august, cache).
Qwen competes with Meta / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Qwen competes with Meta); both cover August, Flash, LocalLLaMA, MLX; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).
Alibaba released Qwen / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Alibaba released Qwen); both cover August, Gated Attention, Gated DeltaNet, LocalLLaMA; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).
Alibaba released Qwen / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Alibaba released Qwen); both cover LocalLLaMA, MoE, Qwen, Qwen3; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).
Alibaba released Qwen / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Alibaba released Qwen); both cover GitHub, LocalLLaMA, MoE, Qwen; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).
Alibaba released Qwen / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Alibaba released Qwen); both cover Gated DeltaNet, LocalLLaMA, Qwen, Qwen3; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).
Qwen competes with Meta / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Qwen competes with Meta); both cover August, GitHub, LocalLLaMA, MoE; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
Qwen competes with Google / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Qwen competes with Google); both cover LocalLLaMA, MoE, Qwen, Qwen3; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).