Qwen3.8-Max Preview Tested & The Rise of Chinese Open-Source LLMs
APPSO · wechat · 2026-07-20
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Max-Preview (2.4T parameters). Tests via the Qoder app show it generates web pages and playable Three.js 3D games extremely fast, though it struggles with complex 3D art scenes and App UI replication.
The article also highlights the accelerating trend of Chinese open-source models catching up to Western closed-source counterparts. Recent releases like GLM-5.2, KimiK3, and the upcoming DeepSeek V4 all benchmark against the absolute frontier. Despite Western skepticism attributing these gains to distillation, the capability gap is undeniably closing, making affordability the next key battleground for AI adoption.
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