Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks

What happened
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 API cost.
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