Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T Parameter MoE with Native Multimodal
alifcoder · x · 2026-08-09
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its most powerful flagship model to date. Built on a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, the model features a total of 2.4T parameters with 95B active parameters.
Key Highlights:
- 1 million-token context window
- Native multimodal intelligence (vision + text)
- Advanced autonomous coding and long-horizon task execution
Qwen3.8-Max is now available globally via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API, with open weights scheduled for release on Hugging Face next week.
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