Alibaba Group (HANGZHOU) has made its flagship artificial intelligence model, Qwen3.8-Max, globally accessible via Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio API and its new QwenWork platform, ahead of an open-weights release scheduled for next week.
Key Details & Highlights
- Scale & Architecture: Features 2.4 trillion total parameters (activating 95 billion per token during inference) paired with a 1-million-token context window.
- Multimodal & Agentic: Supports text, image, and video processing, executing long-horizon agentic tasks like building software directly from screenshots and converting 2D floor plans into 3D models.
- Open-Source Pivot: Marks the first time Alibaba is making the weights of a flagship "Max-class" frontier model open-source.
- Workplace Platform: Launched alongside QwenWork, a public-beta AI workplace agent integrating document drafting, data analysis, and workflow tools.
Alibaba's decision to open-source a 2.4T parameter frontier model disrupts the landscape dominated by proprietary hosted APIs, providing global developers with state-of-the-art open multimodal capabilities.
Source: Qwen.ai Blog