Published Oct 27, 2026, 10:56 PM EDT

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017.

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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model arrived at the end of August, promising a preview of a new architecture that would officially debut with the Qwen 4 family. It's a powerful 125B Mixture of Experts model, with 6B active parameters and an additional 51B N-gram embedding table.…