China's Alibaba Releases Largest AI Model, Challenging US Supremacy

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date, claiming performance that rivals top US systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The open-weight release, expected after a preview last month, intensifies competition between China and the US in AI development.

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Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Max on National Supercomputing Internet

On August 3, Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a foundational AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, making it the second domestic model to exceed two trillion parameters after Kimi K3. The National Supercomputing Internet has made the model's API available for developers on its official website.

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