Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5: benchmark scores don't predict the bill
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max this week, marketing the preview as second only to Claude Fable 5, though the launch-day table had it leading on just one of 12 coding-agent rows. An independent benchmark harness reportedly came close to the opposite conclusion.
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