Instructions to use Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

SGLang

How to use Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
```

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (Qwen 4) 180B on CPU Only, No GPU Needed

#29

by laxmimerit - opened 5 days ago

Discussion

laxmimerit

5 days ago

We ran the 180B Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on one desktop with no GPU at all, then added a single RTX 5090, and measured speed and answer quality against Qwen 3.8 27B.

We found that its 1-bit build is 40 percent lookup table, and we finished at 52 tokens a second on a machine that costs less than one of those cards.

Key takeaways:

Every 4-bit build of this model is 93.7 GB or larger, so a 96 GB desktop has to run the 1-bit or 2-bit build.
The 1-bit file is 72.5 GB because its 26.82 GiB n-gram table is stored at 4-bit. That table does pure lookup, so it belongs in system RAM and nowhere else.
Only about 3.6 GiB is dense weight touched by every token, which is why a 32 GB card can carry the part that matters.
On the CPU alone we get about 11 tokens a second, and prompt reading keeps improving all the way to 24 threads while generation flattens after 8.
With -ot per_layer_token_embd=CPU and -ncmoe tuned one step short of the cliff, we get 52.0 tokens a second. One step further is 3.7, with no error message.
A 1-bit 180B model scored 4.01 perplexity against 5.68 for a 4-bit 27B, and answered every finished problem correctly, while the 1-bit 27B invented three scientists and a JSON field.

🔗 Full Teardown is available here: https://kgptalkie.com/tutorials/llm-benchmarking/qwen-3-8-flash-next-on-cpu-only

Happy Qwenning!

Vimallhmmindia

5 days ago

I have 32 gb ram + 16 gb vram 5070ti gpu...
Then can I run this model....

Karen094

2 days ago

Can you compare Qwen 3.8 Flash (IQ 4 quants) to 27b at Q8 K XL in terms of intelligence?

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