Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and plans to release the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
Alibaba is pitching Qwen3.8-Max as a frontier-class model and says its open weights are due next week.
The company says the 2.4T-parameter model beats Moonshot’s Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and is its largest Qwen release so far. Techmeme’s note says Alibaba also plans to release weights for both Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week. The model is listed as available now through Qwen services, with related discussion pointing to coding, long-context, and multimodal claims. Techmeme's note
The company says the 2.4T-parameter model beats Moonshot’s Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and is its largest Qwen release so far. Techmeme’s note says Alibaba also plans to release weights for both Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week. The model is listed as available now through Qwen services, with related discussion pointing to coding, long-context, and multimodal claims. Techmeme's note
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