Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters, to open-source weights

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its most powerful language model with 2.4 trillion total parameters, designed to autonomously complete complex tasks over days. In tests, the model coded software, reproduced research results, and ran a simulated e-commerce business. It is available now, with weights to be released next week.

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GPT-5.6 helps disprove the Maxwell conjecture — but not the one everyone thought

A preprint on arXiv claims to refute the so-called Maxwell conjecture about the maximum number of equilibrium points for point charges, with the key idea attributed to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model. The conjecture, formulated in 2007, concerned a bound of (n−1)² non-degenerate equilibrium points for n charges. The counterexample uses a configuration of five charges yielding at least 24 equilibrium points, exceeding the predicted 16.

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