Alibaba released a preview of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max AI model. This model features 2.4 trillion parameters. Alibaba claims its performance rivals leading frontier models. The company ranks its capabilities second only to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.
Users can access the preview through the Token Plan subscription service. Alibaba plans to release an open-weight version of the official model soon. This launch follows Moonshot AI’s recent unveiling of the Kimi K3 model. Official benchmarks to verify the performance of Qwen3.8 Max remain unpublished.