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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 August 13 on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and a smaller dense sibling Qwen3.8-27B shipping open The article situates the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B open-weight release within a crowded September for frontier AI, noting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all shipped new models within days of each other. The sparse MoE design, with only 95 billion parameters active on any forward pass, is highlighted as what makes self-hosting f
