{"slug": "alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context", "title": "Alibaba’s Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash with 1M-token context", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal model that processes text, images, audio and video in a single workflow with a 1-million-token context window, available through the Qwen AI platform. Alibaba said the model improved its average score by more than 26% across 30 evaluations versus Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus, with gains in audio-video agents, coding, long-context tasks and real-time multimodal interaction, and cut API input pricing to as low as RMB 0.8 per million tokens. Alibaba also released Qwen-MM-Plugins and Qwen-Live Harness for long-running and real-time workflows.", "body_md": "Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal model that can process text, images, audio and video in a single workflow. The model supports a 1-million-token context window and is now available through the Qwen AI platform.\n\nAlibaba said Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash improved its average score by more than 26% across 30 evaluations compared with Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus. It also reported gains in audio-video agents, coding, long-context tasks and real-time multimodal interaction.\n\nThe model supports long-video analysis, meeting summaries, video research and multimodal tool use. Alibaba has also released Qwen-MM-Plugins and Qwen-Live Harness for long-running and real-time workflows. API input pricing has been reduced to as low as RMB 0.8 per million tokens. [[IT Home](https://www.ithome.com/1/004/049.htm), in Chinese]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/09/18/alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context/", "published_at": "2026-09-18 13:19:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-18 13:23:14.620267+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash", "Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus", "Qwen-MM-Plugins", "Qwen-Live Harness", "Qwen AI platform"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-qwen3-8-omni-flash-with-1m-token-context.jsonld"}}