Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, claims it rivals Anthropic's Fable 5

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's top systems. The model has 2.4 trillion parameters and trails only Fable 5 and three Opus models on Arena.AI. Weights will be released next week.
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