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Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max as a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active parameters, first going live through the QwenCloud API on August 2, 2026 and then published as open weights under the name Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Hugging Face and ModelScope on August 13, 2026, with a The article also situates Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B within a broader September 2026 landscape of competing frontier models, arguing that Alibaba's choice to hand over full weights is a notable counterpoint to labs that have kept capabilities behind closed APIs. It cites a CheapestInference breakdown for the August 13/14 rollou
