Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Max AI Model Amid Open-Weight Releases and Industry Price Cuts
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, featuring multimodal capabilities and a one million token context window. The model uses a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture, activating about 95 billion parameters per token to reduce inference costs. It supports complex tasks like coding, research, and autonomous operations. Alibaba plans to release the model's open weights soon, aligning with China's trend of open-weight AI models. Meanwhile, OpenAI recently cut prices on its GPT-5.6 models following Moonshot AI's free release of the 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model.
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businessstandard broke this story on 3 Aug, 04:24 am. Other outlets followed.