Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter MoE model

The 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model accepts text, image, and video input and is priced at $2 input/$6 output per million tokens. Open weights ship next week alongside the dense Qwen3.8-27B, which The New Stack reports delivers Opus 4.6-level performance on a laptop.