Alibaba
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8 Flash, a new multimodal model, on August 26, 2026, positioning it with stronger coding and office-task performance while materially reducing training cost. According to the Reuters report, Alibaba said the model requires roughly one-ninth of the training cost of its previous Qwen3.7 Qwen announced API pricing of 1 yuan (about $0.1488) per million input tokens and 3 yuan per million output tokens for Qwen3.8 Flash access through its application programming interface. Alongside the closed/API Flash release, Qwen also released open-source weights for a sibling variant called Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, which
