Alibaba’s Qwen team launched Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal model with 2.4 trillion parameters that ranks just behind Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 according to internal benchmarks. Open weights will be released next week, making it one of the largest openly available AI models ever published. Early access is already live through Token Plan and Qoder with discounts reaching up to 90 % off standard API pricing. The launch comes amid intensifying competition between Chinese and American AI labs, with no detailed breakdown of active parameters or independent third-party benchmarks provided. Investors tracking the AI-crypto intersection should monitor independent test results, commercial licensing terms, and whether decentralized compute networks see increased demand as developers deploy the model outside centralized cloud providers.
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