Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, the most capable model it has built and a pointed entry in the size race between China’s largest AI developers. At 2.4 trillion parameters it sits just below Moonshot’s Kimi K3, which carries 2.8 trilli

The new open-weight model targets enterprise software engineering and multimodal workloads as enterprises weigh deployment efficiency alongside AI model performance.

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max AI model, claiming top performance. Best AI model by August 2026 at 0.1% YES, Anthropic at 95% YES.