Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, Its Largest AI Model Amid Rising Chinese AI Competition
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has unveiled its largest AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and designed for complex tasks including text, image, and video processing. The model closely follows Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which has 2.8 trillion parameters. Both models are open-weight, allowing developers to download and adapt them. Alibaba claims Qwen3.8-Max matches or surpasses some benchmarks of leading US AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, emphasizing affordability and broad capabilities amid intensifying competition in China's AI sector.
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