Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, claiming it rivals Anthropic's Fable 5

Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters; Alibaba says it broadly matches or exceeds Anthropic's Fable 5 on its benchmarks and trails only Fable 5 and three Opus models on Arena's text leaderboard. Weights will be released next week.
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