Like last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight model, meaning that the underlying learned settings that allow developers to run or adapt the system are available for download. By contrast, U.S. developers OpenAI, Anthropic and Alphabet's Google have closed-source models.

Alibaba launched its large AI model Qwen3.8-Max with many parameters. This model supports extensive context windows and multimodal inputs for complex tasks. OpenAI also hinted at…

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, second-largest in China, achieves performance second only to models from Anthropic, tests find

Alibaba releases Qwen Max AI model for free. Best AI model by August 2026 at 0.2% YES.

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