Instructions to use Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
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)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # 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=256) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Inference
- 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
Identified serious issue with Flash-Next hallucinating user instructions!
While working with Flash-Next on a new LLM architecture the Flash-Next model itself identified its hallucination fault and was pro-actively testing if the proposed architecture would be a fix!
Fix is to replace prefill/decoder with intermediate representation based on existing n-gram representation, architecture has certified bounds by Lean-proven theorems.
Flash-Next might be dangerous!
Contact if you want to help, AGPLv3 during pilot phase.
I just noticed this in agent session:
logical actions -> tool call -> tool response "ok, next step: ..." -> Thinking: "I should call the audit tool with my actual reasoning, which is minimal: there was no substantive previous turn with reasoning. ..." then recovered and continued more or less normal actions
While my harness doesn't have anything remotely similar to audit. GLM says it's "self-referential justification style reads like a critic-model prompt template leaking through."