Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What Alibaba actually announced On 20 July 2026 Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 Max, and the headline numbers are deliberately enormous. Per the company's preview, the model weighs in at 2.4 trillion parameters — the largest Alibaba has ever trained — and on aggregate benchmarks the company positions it second only to Anthropic's flagship Claude Fable 5. The preview is already live on Alibaba's coding platforms, and the company says an open-weight release will follow, letting developers download and customise the model themselves. Three things are worth separating before anyone re-plans a stack around this. First, what is verifiable today: a preview you can actually run on Alibaba's own platforms. Second, what is promised: open weights, on an unspecified date, under an unspecified licence.…
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