Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, aiming to rival US frontier labs and domestic rivals; benchmarks and open-source release details follow.
Read the original at www.theverge.com→Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic...
Original headline: "China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy"
Coverage timeline
- Aug 1, 20:03 UTC r/LocalLLaMA What’s next for Qwen open-source releases?
- Aug 3, 01:51 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Qwen 3.8 is live now.
- Aug 3, 02:11 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Qwen 3.8 max benchmarks
- Aug 3, 02:20 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Qwen3.8-27B announced alongside in Qwen3.8-Max
- Aug 3, 02:21 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Qwen3.8-27B announced alongside Qwen3.8-Max
- Aug 3, 04:50 UTC r/LocalLLaMA Can't wait to see Qwen3.8-27B
- Aug 3, 11:01 UTC The Verge AI lead source China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
- Aug 3, 16:15 UTC Hacker News (AI) Qwen 3.8 Max is on OpenRouter
- Aug 4, 01:05 UTC r/LocalLLaMA More Qwen 3.8 sizes coming