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Qwen3.8 Max catches Claude Opus 4.8 but burns 15x the tokens to do it
The Decoder · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max just posted a 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — a 10-point leap over its predece...
Topic: Alibaba
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Explore our coverage of Alibaba — 12 curated articles, summaries, and related resources from the Inblix archive.
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Alibaba's Qwen ad ditches AI doom for a nap—and that's the whole sales pitch
The Decoder · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The AI industry's go-to marketing move—warning you that your job is toast—just got a cheerful counterpunch from China....
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Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max autonomously ran a business for a year and beat 87% of human coders
The Decoder · Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba just dropped a model that doesn't just answer prompts — it clocks in for a multi-day shift. Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-...
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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max hits 86.6 on Terminal-Bench, open weights drop next week
MarkTechPost · Aug 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Alibaba's Qwen team just flipped the switch on general availability for Qwen3.8-Max and confirmed that open weights for...
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Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max dethrones Claude Fable 5 on key benchmarks
The Verge AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Alibaba just dropped Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model that doesn't just narrow the gap with US frontier labs...
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Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0 renders legible 10-pixel text and 9-panel infographics in one shot
The Decoder · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped the third version of its image generator, and this time the stated goal is blunt: "Rea...
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Alibaba's Qwen TTS edges past rivals in quality, but crawls at 16 chars/second
The Decoder · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba just claimed the top spot on a major text-to-speech leaderboard with a model that sounds great — so long as you...
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Alibaba's Qwen TTS tops AI leaderboard at $27.59 per 1M chars — but it's slow
MarkTechPost · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab just dropped Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, and it's already snagged the top spot on the Artificial Analysis...
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Alibaba drops 2.4T Qwen3.8 preview with no active params and no license yet
MarkTechPost · Jul 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba’s Qwen team dropped a teaser for Qwen3.8-Max-Preview on July 19, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model it c...
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Alibaba drops Qwen 3.8, says it trails only Fable 5
The Decoder · Jul 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Alibaba just threw a 2.4-trillion-parameter wrench into the open-weight race. The company unveiled Qwen 3.8, a multimod...
Industry
Alibaba Accused
Ars Technica AI · Jun 26, 2026 · 1 min read
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of launching a massive attack to clone its AI model Claude, generating over 28 million ex...
Research
Qwen-3's chat template reveals how to toggle AI reasoning on and off
Hugging Face Blog · Apr 30, 2025 · 3 min read
The new Qwen-3 model from Alibaba's Qwen team ships with a chat template that's a quiet masterclass in practical AI des...