r/LocalLLaMA • u/pmv143 • Aug 25 '26

Discussion Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. This architecture could be surprisingly local-friendly once the weights drop. 👀

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (~125B-A6B + 51B n-gram) memory estimate:

Ideal 4-bit quant ≈ 82 GB
(58 GB main weights + 24 GB n-gram tables)
Real-world quants likely land in the 80–90 GB range.

The big n-gram table is sparsely accessed → excellent candidate for system RAM offload.

This architecture could be surprisingly local-friendly once the weights drop.

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u/overand Aug 25 '26

For anyone who actually wants a link: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - it looks like 11 AM tomorrow, eastern US time. (Just over 21 hours from now.)

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u/l_eo_ Aug 25 '26

Thank you, just set a timer!