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Alibaba Launches New Flagship Large Model Qwen3.8-Max

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88Z AI, 3 August — Alibaba Cloud releases Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters and 95B activated parameters, supporting million-level context. The model is upgraded for coding, office, and research tasks, with weights open-sourced next week and domestic API input priced at 12 yuan per million tokens.

At a glance

  • Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters, supports million-token context, and opens weights next week
  • Ranks top three in text, code, and vision benchmarks; domestic API input priced at 12 yuan per million tokens
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The update

Alibaba Cloud has officially launched the new flagship large model, Qwen3.8-Max. The model features a parameter scale of 2.4 trillion, with 95 billion activated parameters, and supports a context length of up to one million tokens. It delivers comprehensive upgrades in programming assistance, office applications, scientific research, and long-horizon task processing. Currently, the model ranks among the top three in the Arena benchmarks for text, code, and vision. Alibaba Cloud announced that the model weights will be open-sourced next week. For commercial use, the API input price in the domestic market is set at 12 yuan per million tokens.

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