Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, 2.4T-param MoE flagship

Qwen3.8-Max claims to be second only to Anthropic's Fable 5 at roughly 1/10 the price — about $1.70 in / $5.10 out per M tokens vs Fable 5's $10/$50. Benchmarks show it matching Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash and ranking fifth on Artificial Analysis; open weights are expected next week.