Alibaba's new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max is built to handle complex tasks on its own over days at a time, from reproducing research papers to designing chips autonomously. The team plans to release the weights next week.

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

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters, ranking just behind Claude Fable 5. Open weights release next week could reshape AI and