Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Undercuts Gemini Flash Pricing

Qwen launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, its first multimodal model built 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 API cost.

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