Alibaba previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal flagship
Alibaba / Qwen
Alibaba's Qwen team unveiled a preview of Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model and the team's first multimodal model above 1 trillion parameters, processing text, images, video, and documents. The company says it is committed to an eventual open-weight release but has not yet published a date, license, benchmarks, or model card.
Why it matters
Positions Qwen's next flagship directly against Kimi K3 and Western frontier models in the ongoing Chinese open-weights race, though the preview shipped without any independent benchmark verification.
Importance: 3/5
Major flagship preview from Alibaba (2.4T params, first >1T multimodal), but announced without benchmarks, model card, or release date; confirmed official+media.