Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, 2.4T-parameter model going open-weight
Preview of the 2.4T-parameter MoE model is live on Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat, with open weights free to download next week. Alibaba claims it trails only Anthropic's Fable 5; Artificial Analysis scores it 56 at $1.14 per task, behind open-weight Kimi K3's 57 at $0.86.
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[AINews] not much happened todaylatent.space
Alibaba outlines Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameterstechnode.com
“Second only to Fable 5:” Alibaba talks the talk with Qwen3.8 without providing any real datathenewstack.io
Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max is second only to Fable 5 — at roughly 1/10 the price. There's no benchmark table, model card, or license yet.
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