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Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks
TL;DRAlibaba's new AI model matches Google's capabilities at lower cost.
Why it matters: Cheaper multimodal AI accelerates adoption of video/audio processing agents across startups and enterprises.
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is Qwen's first multimodal model designed for AI agents. It processes audio and video together and independently uses tools to edit vlogs, translate clips, or summarize movies. On audio-video benchmarks, it nearly matches Gemini 3.8 Flash at a fraction of the…
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