Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, with open weights scheduled next week
The 2.4 trillion-parameter model is live on QwenCloud at $2 per million input tokens, while downloadable weights are still pending.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Qwen
Why it matters
Alibaba is pairing a frontier hosted API with promised open weights, using developer distribution to drive cloud demand and challenge closed US coding models.
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on August 2nd, giving developers immediate access through QwenCloud and promising to publish the model's weights the following week. The release marks Alibaba's first plan to open a Max-class Qwen model, extending its open-weight strategy to the most computationally ambitious tier in the family.…
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