Qwen Releases Omni-Modal Model Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
On September 18, 2026, Qwen released the omni-modal model Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash. According to official information, this is its first omni-modal model built around agent capabilities, natively supporting audio-visual understanding, reasoning, and tool calling. The company says its audio-visual capabilities are close to Gemini 3.8 Flash, with agent performance improving by an average of 19.5 points on WildClawBench-MM and UniClawBench; it supports a 1M token context and uses 51.8% fewer tokens than static understanding on OmniVideoBench. Video input costs are about 89% lower than Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus. Alongside the release, Qwen-MM-Plugins is being open-sourced, and Qwen-Live Harness is coming soon. There are currently no subsequent independent development facts.
On September 18, 2026, Qwen released the omni-modal model Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash. According to official information, this is its first omni-modal model built around agent capabilities, natively supporting audio-visual understanding, reasoning, and tool calling. The company says its audio-visual capabilities are close to Gemini 3.8 Flash, with agent performance improving by an average of 19.5 points on WildClawBench-MM and UniClawBench; it supports a 1M token context and uses 51.8% fewer tokens than
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