# Alibaba Releases Qwen 3.8-Max, 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model

> Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest model yet and, notably, the first time it has open-sourced a Max-class system. It is a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with roughly 95 billion active parameters, a 1M token context, and support for text, image, and video input. On the OSWorld-Verified benchmark it scored 86.1. Releasing weights at this scale, alongside a smaller Qwen 3.8-27B, is a strategic move. It keeps Alibaba at the front of the open-weight race that Chinese labs have come to dominate, and it hands researchers and companies a frontier-scale model they can actually run and inspect rather than only rent. For a field where the most capable systems are usually closed, an open trillion-parameter release is a meaningful shift in who gets to build with the best tools.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The Daily Star · Published Friday, August 28, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest model yet and, notably, the first time it has open-sourced a Max-class system. It is a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with roughly 95 billion active parameters, a 1M token context, and support for text, image, and video input. On the OSWorld-Verified benchmark it scored 86.1. Releasing weights at this scale, alongside a smaller Qwen 3.8-27B, is a strategic move. It keeps Alibaba at the front of the open-weight race that Chinese labs have come to dominate, and it hands researchers and companies a frontier-scale model they can actually run and inspect rather than only rent. For a field where the most capable systems are usually closed, an open trillion-parameter release is a meaningful shift in who gets to build with the best tools.

## Source

[Read the full story at The Daily Star](https://www.thedailystar.net/news/tech-startup/news/alibaba-releases-qwen-38-max-its-largest-ai-model-yet-4238986)

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