Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model, employing a mixture-of-experts design for efficiency. This move intensifies competition with rivals like DeepSeek, which challenges with aggressive, low-cost pricing for its V4-Flash model. While Qwen3.8-Max boasts multimodal capabilities and a large context window, DeepSeek prioritizes affordability, making cost-per-task a key battleground in the AI market. Both companies also offer open-weight versions, increasing accessibility for developers.

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its new AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters trained on 36T tokens. This model boasts a 1 million token context window, enabling it to process vast amounts of data. It demonstrates strong performance in coding, research, and visual intelligence, rivaling top U.S. AI models and accelerating Alibaba’s push in the global AI race.