SITUATION EXPLAINED: Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 Flash beats DeepSeek V4 Flash and Opus 4.6 Max on most tasks, at just $0.16/M input tokens. • It leads DeepSeek V4 Flash and Opus 4.6 Max on most tested tasks, at $0.16 input and $0.47 output per million tokens • 125B total parameters with just 6B active per token, plus a separate 51B N-gram embedding layer • That N-gram layer is the actual innovation. It stores common word groups as a phrase dictionary and can sit in ordinary system RAM rather than GPU…