Chinese LLMs See Intensive Updates
智东西 · wechat · 2026-07-19
This article reviews the recent wave of intensive updates from Chinese LLMs. First, Alibaba's Qwen officially announced that **Qwen3.8** is coming soon and will be open-sourced with a parameter scale of **2.4T**. A preview version of `Qwen3.8-Max` is already live on Alibaba TokenPlan, Qoder, and QoderWork, accompanied by limited-time offers. The article also mentions that **Kimi-K3** has been open-sourced. With 2.8T parameters, it has won praise from overseas developers for its long-range task handling, frontend rendering, and AgentSwarm capabilities. Additionally, the official version of **DeepSeek-V4** is reportedly in grey-box testing among some users, and **MiniMax M3 Pro** is said to be launching soon with plans to go open source. Overall, it captures the current "blowout" phase of domestic Chinese models.
Related event: Alibaba Announces 2.4T Open-Weight Model Qwen3.8(21 posts)→
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