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Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-Parameter AI to Rival OpenAI and Anthropic

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Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model to date, targeting enterprise use cases such as software engineering and complex reasoning. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2.4 trillion total parameters, though only around 95 billion are activated per inference cycle, balancing performance with speed and cost efficiency. Open-weight versions are set to be released publicly via Alibaba's cloud studio platform the following week. Internal benchmarks shared by the company suggest Qwen3.8-Max performs competitively against leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic on coding evaluations such as SWE-bench Pro. Alibaba also claimed the model autonomously completed three coding projects without human input, with one project running continuously for 16 days from an empty folder to a finished software product.

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