Models / Qwen

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
serving recipe.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a 176B total, 6B active mixture of experts model with a 256K tokens context window. vLLM publishes a tested serving recipe for it, and Wingsmith reads that recipe when you register the weights.

Size
176B total, 6B activeMixture of experts
Context
256K tokensAs the recipe states it.
Memory floor
130 GBSmallest published, whole replica.
vLLM
0.29.0 or laterThe recipe needs a nightly build.

01 / Memory

Precisions and memory floors.

Each variant is a precision vLLM tested, sometimes published as its own repository.

VariantPrecisionMemory floorWeights
defaultNVFP4130 GBInferact/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4
fp8FP8250 GBQwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8
bf16BF16423 GBQwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Floors are the minimum the vLLM recipe publishes across the whole replica, from vLLM's own runs. The control plane compares them with its own sizing from the model config.

02 / Parallelism

Layouts the recipe supports.

  • Tensor ParallelFits inside one node's interconnect. single_node_tp
  • Tensor + Expert ParallelFits inside one node's interconnect. single_node_tep
  • Data + Expert ParallelFits inside one node's interconnect. single_node_dep

03 / Hardware

Where vLLM ran it.

Node shapes the recipe reports an end-to-end run on.

  • DGX Station (GB300) · 1 GPU
  • GB200 NVL4 · 4 GPUs
  • GB300 NVL4 · 4 GPUs
  • H200 · 8 GPUs
  • RTX Pro 6000 4x · 4 GPUs
  • MI355X · 8 GPUs

Wingsmith runs models through NVIDIA Dynamo, so it serves on NVIDIA GPUs. Other vendors are listed as the recipe states them.

04 / Flags

The tested baseline.

Base flags, then the default variant, then the features that are on by default, as the recipe composes them.

vllm serve Inferact/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 \
  --max-num-seqs 256 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 \
  --enable-prefix-caching \
  --no-enable-flashinfer-autotune \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3
Single-node baseline. Multi-node layouts add flags per strategy and role.

Features

  • Tool callingOn by defaultEnable automatic tool choice with the Qwen3 XML parser
  • ReasoningOn by defaultExtract thinking output with the Qwen3 reasoning parser
  • Speculative decodingOpt-inUse the checkpoint's Multi-Token Prediction module for faster decoding
  • Text-only modeOpt-inSkip the vision encoder for text-only workloads and leave more memory for KV cache

05 / Serve

Serve it with Wingsmith.

From a slug to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, across your clusters.

  1. Register the weights

    In the console, or through the API. Resolving a slug proposes an artifact and writes nothing.

    curl "http://localhost:8000/v1/artifacts/resolve?source=hf:Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"
    Against the local control plane from the quickstart, where admin auth is off.
  2. Read the draft

    The draft carries this recipe as upstream evidence: the tested flags, the precision and memory floor, the parallelism layouts, and the hardware vLLM verified, with links back to the recipe. Nothing from it is applied without you, and the draft warns when the plane's own sizing and the published floor differ by a quarter or more.

  3. Create the workload

    Choose the engine, device shape and scale. The plane picks the clusters, and each cluster's operator renders the deployment as a Dynamo graph.

  4. Give it an endpoint

    One model name for clients, routed by the gateway to deployments on every cluster serving it.

Run the control plane locally →

Questions

Common questions.

  • How much GPU memory does Qwen3.8-Flash-Next need?The vLLM recipe publishes a minimum of 130 GB across the whole replica for its NVFP4 variant; FP8 250 GB, BF16 423 GB. That is vLLM's own measurement, not a per-GPU figure.
  • Which parallelism layouts does the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next recipe support?Tensor Parallel, Tensor + Expert Parallel and Data + Expert Parallel.
  • Can Wingsmith serve Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?Wingsmith serves models through NVIDIA Dynamo on clusters with NVIDIA GPUs. Register Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and the plane attaches this vLLM recipe to the draft as evidence: its tested flags, precision and memory floor, for you to review rather than applied on your behalf.

From the vLLM recipe for Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next ↗ (snapshot at 4bcc189), Apache 2.0.

Status

Open source,
under Apache 2.0.

Wingsmith is pre-release. The first public release, and everything after it, will be under Apache 2.0.

Built and not built

Built

Multi-cluster placement and routing, Dynamo deployments, device inventory, endpoints and quotas, the console, the CLI, and three measurement tools.

Not built

Published images and charts, per-user roles and SSO, batch and training workloads, and a Helm chart for the control plane.

Pre-release. No tagged release, images, or charts yet, and APIs and protocols can change.