China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
The Verge Robert Hart ● Covered by 10 sources
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, claiming it matches the performance of OpenAI and Anthropic's top models. The model became widely available to users on Monday following a preview last month where Alibaba positioned it as second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. The release intensifies competition between Chinese and US AI developers in frontier model capabilities.
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available to users in a […]