Alibaba opens its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active parameters, making it available through QwenCloud while promising open weights next week, according to the Qwen team’s release. The delayed weight drop means builders should treat today’s launch as an API evaluation window rather than a self-hosting event, but the scale and openness extend the Chinese model strategy examined in Kimi K3’s frontier-cost challenge.