Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
2.4 trillion parameters. Alibaba just previewed Qwen3.8-Max—and it's claiming second-place only to Fable 5.
Why it matters
Alibaba is escalating the frontier model race with a massive multimodal MoE release, but key benchmarks and pricing details are suspiciously absent. This is a capability claim without proof—investors and builders need to watch what actually ships.
The key facts
6 to knowQwen3.8-Max-Preview: 2.4 trillion parameters, multimodal MoE architecture
Alibaba claims 'second only to Fable 5' in capability
Preview live on Token Plan, Coder, CoderWork at 10% standard pricing
Missing: benchmark tables, model card, license, per-token pricing, active-parameter count
Timing: Days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 open-weight launch
UNVERIFIED: No independent benchmarks provided; claims lack supporting data
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Publisher excerpt: Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing. What is not live: any benchmark table, model card, license, per-token price, or…