# Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, largest open model with 2.4T parameters

> Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, which it bills as its most capable model yet and one of the largest openly discussed to date. The system uses a mixture-of-experts design with 2.4 trillion total parameters, of which roughly 95 billion activate for any given request, keeping the running cost far below what the headline size suggests. It is multimodal across text, images, and video, carries a one million token context window, and posts strong benchmark results. Alibaba says it ranks as the top Chinese text model and comes in second globally on visual analysis, trailing only Claude Fable 5. In testing, the company claims the model carried out an autonomous software project over sixteen days. The release is another data point in a clear trend, Chinese labs are shipping frontier-scale systems quickly and closing the gap on the leading Western models, especially on multimodal tasks where the margins are now thin.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The Next Web · Published Wednesday, August 12, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, which it bills as its most capable model yet and one of the largest openly discussed to date. The system uses a mixture-of-experts design with 2.4 trillion total parameters, of which roughly 95 billion activate for any given request, keeping the running cost far below what the headline size suggests. It is multimodal across text, images, and video, carries a one million token context window, and posts strong benchmark results. Alibaba says it ranks as the top Chinese text model and comes in second globally on visual analysis, trailing only Claude Fable 5. In testing, the company claims the model carried out an autonomous software project over sixteen days. The release is another data point in a clear trend, Chinese labs are shipping frontier-scale systems quickly and closing the gap on the leading Western models, especially on multimodal tasks where the margins are now thin.

## Source

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