Alibaba Readies Qwen3.8-Max — 2.4 Trillion Parameters, Open Weights Reportedly Next Week

The new model targets coding, research, and long-horizon agent tasks, and China's open-weight push is set to put a frontier-scale system in the public's hands.

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model positioned squarely at agentic work, with open weights reportedly expected next week. As @ivke2006 reported, the model claims major gains in coding, research, and long-horizon agent tasks — the exact capabilities that separate a chat model from an agent that can sustain a multi-step job.

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