Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What actually shipped When we covered the Qwen3.8 Max preview in July, the single most consequential unverified line was the open-weight promise. As of August 2026, that promise has been honoured — but as two releases with two very different sets of terms, and the difference between them will decide which one your business can touch. On 12 August 2026, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B — the open checkpoint of the Max flagship — landed on Hugging Face and ModelScope: 2.4 trillion total parameters with roughly 95 billion active per token in a fine-grained mixture-of-experts design. It is, as far as we can establish, the first time a Qwen-Max-class flagship has shipped weights at all, and it arrived under a new custom licence — named simply qwen3.8-max in the repositories — rather than the Apache 2.0 that…
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