Dev Praises Qwen3.8-max-preview xhigh, Ran Workloads Nearly 24 Hours on Generous Quota
jasonkneen · x · 2026-09-22
Developer Jason Kneen reports that Qwen3.8-max-preview in xhigh mode is "astonishingly good," and that Alibaba's usage quota is generous enough that his workloads ran for nearly 24 hours straight. A positive third-party data point on the preview model's capability and limits.
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