Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, claims it rivals top US and Chinese AI models

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Chinese tech company Alibaba has launched what it describes as its largest and most capable AI model to date, called Qwen3.8-Max. The company claims the model's performance is comparable to leading systems from US firms Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as Chinese competitor Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba announced the model's wide public availability in a blog post on Monday. The release had been anticipated following a preview last month, during which Alibaba stated the model was second only to Anthropic's flagship, Claude 4 (Fable 5). The launch comes amid escalating tensions between the US and China over artificial intelligence development and technological dominance.

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