Alibaba releases new Qwen AI model with performance rivalling Anthropic's Fable

Alibaba has released the Qwen3.8-Max AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, matching or outperforming Anthropic's Fable 5 on multiple benchmarks and challenging perceptions about the gap between Chinese and US AI capabilities.

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