Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen3.8 Omni-Flash and Qwen3.8 LiveTranslate models via hosted APIs
Model release Provisional 72% confidence first seen
Alibaba’s Qwen team released two Qwen 3.8 models: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, an omni-modal model with agentic audio-video understanding, tool use, and a 1M-token context window; and Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a real-time simultaneous interpretation model with reduced average lag across 60 languages. Both models are described as available through hosted APIs, with LiveTranslate supporting features such as speaker diarization and synchronized bilingual display.