Qwen3-Next - The future of efficient LLMs

Hi everyone! Looking at the benchmarks, the Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is impressively competitive with the massive Qwen3-235B-A22B flagship model. This is beyond just an iteration, it's a new architectural approach. The model's unique design keeps its 80B total parameters but only activates 3B at a time. This allows it to achieve performance comparable to much larger dense models while delivering a >10x inference speedup, especially on long-context tasks over 32K. I'm excited to see if the Qwen team applies this new architecture to even larger parameter models. I'm always thrilled by breakthroughs in foundational model architecture because they usually lead to leapfrog improvements in capability. To the sky, Qwen!