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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 95 billion active parameters, first went live through Alibaba's QwenCloud API on August 2, 2026, with the open-weight variant packaged as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B following on Hugging Face and ModelScope on August 13, according to a September 7, 202 The recap situates the release in a crowded September for frontier AI, noting that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all shipped new models within days of each other and that Alibaba's decision to hand over full model weights has become a sharp example of open source pushing back on increasingly closed labs. It frames the