Alibaba Officially Releases Next-Generation Foundation Model Qwen3.8 with 2.4 Trillion Total Parameters

On August 3, Alibaba officially released its next-generation foundation model Qwen3.8, with a total of 2.4 trillion parameters, significantly improving capabilities in coding and professional office tasks. In the third-party Arena rankings released today, Alibaba's Qwen model is second only to Anthropic's Claude series. The Qwen3.8 API is now available on the Qianwen AI platform and integrated into Alibaba's new Agent product 'Qianwen Office'.

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OpenAI's Next-Gen Model Astra Cracks Ten Mathematical Problems for $2,000 in Compute

OpenAI released ten breakthroughs in mathematics and theoretical computer science, achieved by an internal version of its next major model, Astra. The total token cost for finding solutions, based on Sol API rates, was about $2,000. The breakthroughs cover a range of topics from sphere packing to computational complexity.

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