Alibaba on August 3, 2026 released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model and the largest in its Qwen family, featuring a 1 million token context window. The model uses a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture that activates only 95 billion parameters per inference, reducing compute costs relative to de The release positions Qwen3.8-Max as a frontier-scale Chinese competitor within striking distance of leading Western models on key benchmarks and available via Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork. The model supports multimodal inputs including long documents, video series, and live streams, with showcased capabi

On July 20, 2026, Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max in preview, claiming it is "second only to Anthropic's Fable 5," with 2.4 trillion parameters and an expected open-weight release. The model was made available to try via Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork, and shares of Alibaba surged more than 3.5% in overnight t The competitive pressure from successive Chinese frontier releases drove shares of rival model maker Zhipu down more than 45% over five days and MiniMax down nearly 13% over the same window, with MiniMax having lost more than 61% over the prior month. Reporting also indicated that several top Chinese AI startups are pu

Alibaba's March-quarter and full-year FY2026 results (filed May 2026 via Business Wire and mirrored on Morningstar) describe meaningful platform-level progress across the DashScope/Qwen stack. Cloud Intelligence Group's external revenue grew 40% year-over-year, with AI-related products contributing roughly 30% of that On the model side, Alibaba reported that its Qwen LLM demonstrated leadership in reasoning and coding, and that it expanded the multimodal portfolio with launches in video generation and world models. For agentic AI, the company shipped multiple enterprise AI agents targeted at office and coding use cases and fully int

Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model with a 1 million token context window, widely accessible to global users this week, with the open-weights release scheduled for the following week. According to South China Morning Post reporting, the model can ingest long documents, television series, Alongside the model, Alibaba pushed QwenWork, an all-in-one workplace AI agent platform, into public beta as web and desktop apps. QwenWork is positioned directly against Tencent's WorkBuddy, Moonshot AI's Kimi Work, Claude Cowork, and ChatGPT Work, competing in a crowded field where distribution, pricing, and enterpri

Alibaba Group's December-quarter FY2026 earnings release (filed via SEC EDGAR on March 19, 2026) provides earlier-period context for the same trajectory: Cloud Intelligence Group revenue grew 36% year-over-year, with AI-related product revenue at triple-digit growth for ten consecutive quarters. Management explicitly i On the consumer/interface side, the Qwen app's monthly active users surpassed 300 million, with AI agents performing real-world task execution at scale. While the document is a corporate financial filing rather than a model or API release note, it is an official, SEC-filed source corroborating the scale and commercial