1018: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: Open-Weight Model Surpasses Most American Frontier Labs

Today's episode is on QEN 3.8 Max, the enormous new flagship model from the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, a model that, if Alibaba keeps a promise it made at launch, is now the largest open-weight AI model release in history. Three weeks ago in episode number 1012, I covered Kimi K3, the nearly 3 trillion parameter model from Beijing-based Moonshot AI that rattled investors, kicked off a pricing skirmish among the big

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1. 01Today's episode is on QEN 3.8 Max, the enormous new flagship model from the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, a model that, if Alibaba keeps a promise it made at launch, is now the large
2. 02Three weeks ago in episode number 1012, I covered Kimi K3, the nearly 3 trillion parameter model from Beijing-based Moonshot AI that rattled investors, kicked off a pricing skirmis
3. 03Alibaba previewed QEM 3.8 Max at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 19th, two days after Moonshot released K3, and then shipped the full model on August 3rd