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Shattered.io reports that 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 Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B following on Hugging Face and ModelScope on August 13 under an Apache 2.0 license. The article positions the open-weight Qwen3.8 release within a crowded September for frontier AI, presenting benchmark context including an 86.6 score claimed to position it near Opus 5, though the supplied excerpt does not cite a primary benchmark source for that figure. Attribution to a "Laura Bennett" byline on a th