Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T Parameters, Open Weights Next Week
AGI Hunt · wechat · 2026-08-03
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, featuring 2.4 trillion total parameters (95B active), 1M context length, and native vision capabilities. It scores 1668 on FrontendCodeArena, just 1 point behind Claude Opus 5 High.
Key Highlights:
- Open Source: Weights arriving next week, marking the first open-source Max-tier model, alongside a 27B variant
- Pricing: $2/M input, $6/M output tokens — output cost is only 1/5 of GPT-5.6 Sol
- Autonomous Capabilities: Independently managed projects (265 commits in 16 days), reproduced and improved research papers (AIME24 +2.7 over original), competed in data science contests (beating 87% of human teams), and optimized chip logic (81% area reduction)
- Gaps: Trails Fable5 on SWE-bench Pro and GPT-5.6 Sol on TerminalBench 2.1
Community attention is focused on whether the license will be MIT.
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