🤖Alibaba Opens Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-Parameter AI Model
TL;DR
Alibaba made its flagship Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and will release the open weights next week. The 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model supports a 1M-token context and long-horizon agent tasks; Alibaba's Hong Kong shares rose 7%.
Alibaba made its flagship Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and will release the open weights next week. The 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model supports a 1M-token context and long-horizon agent tasks; Alibaba's Hong Kong shares rose 7%.
Key Points
2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model with up to a 1M-token context, roughly 750,000 words per query
Available via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio APIs and the new QwenWork agent platform, now in public beta
Open weights due 'next week' alongside a Qwen3.8-27B; first open Max-class Qwen if permissively licensed
Can rebuild apps from screenshots, generate interactive games, and convert 2D floor plans to 3D
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares closed up 7% at HK$125.20
Why It Matters
A frontier-scale Max model with open weights would hand self-hosters a Chinese alternative near the top of the leaderboard, pressuring closed US labs on price.
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Why does this matter?
A frontier-scale Max model with open weights would hand self-hosters a Chinese alternative near the top of the leaderboard, pressuring closed US labs on price.
What happened?
Alibaba made its flagship Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and will release the open weights next week. The 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model supports a 1M-token context and long-horizon agent tasks; Alibaba's Hong Kong shares rose 7%.
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