Qwen3.8-Max
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Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model, supporting up to a 1 million token context window and accepting text, image, and video inputs. Recent coverage describes its immediate availability via Alibaba’s cloud/API offering and its planned open-weights release the following week, alongside reports of extended autonomous coding and large-context coding use cases. Commentary in the developer press has also focused on pricing, benchmark and self-evaluation claims, and whether promised open weights and long-horizon agent deployment controls meet enterprise needs.
Updated 16 September 2026
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Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 467
Deep Learning Weekly · 1 month ago ·
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What developers really think about Qwen3.8-Max: “An API business model wearing an open source jacket”
The New Stack · 1 month ago ·
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Qwen3.8-Max Launched as Cheaper Coding Model for Pro Work
qwen.ai · 1 month ago ·
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Alibaba debuts Qwen3.8-Max model with 2.4T parameters
SiliconANGLE · 1 month ago ·
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Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub
The New Stack · 1 month ago ·
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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters and autonomous coding agent
X · 1 month ago ·
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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
MarkTechPost · 1 month ago ·
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China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
The Verge · 1 month ago ·
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August 2026
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model with coding and autonomous agent capabilities Model release
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 467
- What developers really think about Qwen3.8-Max: “An API business model wearing an open source jacket”
- Qwen3.8-Max Launched as Cheaper Coding Model for Pro Work
- Alibaba debuts Qwen3.8-Max model with 2.4T parameters
- Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub
- Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters and autonomous coding agent
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
- Qwen3.8-Max is The Next Chinese Open-Weights Assault on The AI Frontier
- Qwen3.8-Max
July 2026
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open model with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1-million-token context window Open source release