Testing Qwen3.8-Max: Open Models Are Catching Up with Closed Frontier
dair_ai · x · 2026-08-04
AI news account DAIR.AI shared hands-on impressions of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max. The reviewer noted that trying the model on Hermes Agent forces you to doubt how much open frontier models have caught up with closed ones.
The reviewer praised the new open models, stating they are "insanely good" and demonstrating extremely high capability levels in agentic tasks.
Related event: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: Open-Source Model Nears Closed-Source Frontier(13 posts)→
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