Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Arrives With 2.4 Trillion Parameters After Kimi K3 Selloff

Alibaba's Qwen team claims a 2.4 trillion parameter model (Qwen3.8) headed for open-weight release, positioning it as competitive with frontier US models; the claim lands days after Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release spooked chip stocks, but benchmarks and technical details remain pending.

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