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Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parameters
Carried more widely than almost anything else in the last 30 days
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AI & ML
◆ Where
China
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- 3 August 2026Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parametersthe-decoder.com
- 13 August 2026Alibaba adds commercial restrictions to open-weight Qwen3.8-Max AI modelamp.scmp.com
- 14 August 2026Alibaba adds commercial restrictions to open-weight Qwen3.8-Max AI modelscmp.com
- 15 August 2026Alibaba AI downloads top 3B beating Meta, Google (BABA:NYSE)seekingalpha.com
- 16 August 2026Alibaba's Qwen becomes world's most downloaded open AI modelchinadaily.com.cn
- 17 August 2026Alibaba Launches New AI Model And Opens Weights Of Qwen3.8 Maxbinance.com
- 18 August 2026Alibaba Qwen tops global open-source AI downloads, outpacing Google and Metabiz.chosun.com
- 26 August 2026Alibaba's Qwen launches Qwen3.8-Flash AI model with lower training costswtvbam.com
- 27 August 2026Alibaba's Qwen launches Qwen3.8-Flash AI model with lower training costsenterpriseai.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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