Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Announced: 2.4T Parameter MoE, Open Weights Next Week
haider1 · x · 2026-08-03
Alibaba's Qwen team has announced that it will release the open weights for its most capable model to date, Qwen3.8-Max, alongside Qwen3.8-27B next week.
Key highlights of Qwen3.8-Max:
- Architecture & Scale: A 2.4T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model.
- Autonomous Coding: Capable of 10+ days of self-evolving development, achieving end-to-end autonomous closure from an empty folder to a production-ready project.
- Long-Horizon Planning: Features system-level autonomous planning and closed-loop adaptive learning, enabling tasks like 500+ turns of chip design optimization and 365 days of e-commerce strategy.
- Pricing: Highly competitive API pricing at $2/M input tokens and $6/M output tokens.
According to the reposter, the model matches or surpasses closed-source competitors like GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 4.8 across multiple benchmarks.
Related event: Alibaba Releases 2.4T Parameter Qwen3.8-Max, Open Weights Coming Next Week(30 posts)→
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