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Figure 35: Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
Sparse hybridAlibaba Cloud 🇨🇳 · September 9, 2025

Qwen3 Next (80B-A3B)

Efficiency-focused Qwen refresh that swaps standard attention for a DeltaNet-attention hybrid.

Key detail

Adds many more experts, a shared expert, native 262k context, and MTP for speculative decoding.

Total params

80B

Active / token

3B

Context

256K

Fact sheet

Scale
80B total, 3B active (3.8% active)
Context window
262,144 tokens
Decoder type
Sparse hybrid
Attention
3:1 Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention
Layer mix
12 gated attention + 36 DeltaNet
KV cache / token (bf16)
24 KiB · Very low
License
Apache License 2.0
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

3.8%

3B of 80B weights run for each token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

24 KiB

Smaller than 77% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

9.6

Scientific
3.8

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