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Qwen3.8-Max

Product Hunt Zac Zuo 2 August 2026, 20:55 ● Covered by 10 sources

Alibaba's Qwen team just put its biggest model yet on Product Hunt, and it's aimed squarely at coders. It's the strongest Qwen release so far for real work, not just chat.

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