Alibaba’s Qwen team unveiled a preview of Qwen3.8-Max on July 19, 2026, describing it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model that processes text, images, video and documents. The company said the model ranks second only to Fable 5 among systems it benchmarked, though it has not published official benchmark results, active-parameter counts, or a license. The preview was announced two days after Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi K3 release and is accessible through Alibaba’s Token Plan at a discounted rate, with open weights promised later.
