Alibaba Unveils Qwen 3.8-Max, Its Most Capable AI Model
Summary
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model yet, with 2.4 trillion parameters and support for text, images and video. The model will be released publicly next week through Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio platform.
Key Points
- Alibaba introduced Qwen 3.8-Max, its biggest and most capable AI model to date.
- The model has 2.4 trillion parameters and uses a Mixture of Experts architecture to cut costs and speed up responses.
- It is top-ranked among Chinese text models on Arena.ai, though it still trails Anthropic’s Claude 5 in some benchmarks.
- Alibaba says the model can process up to one million tokens and completed a software engineering project in 16 days.
