Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 Max-Preview on July 19, 2026, positioning it as the strongest model in its Qwen family and making it available through Alibaba's Token Plan subscription service alongside the Qoder and QoderWork agentic platforms. The model is described as carrying 2.4 trillion parameters and performing second The preview lands amid accelerating Chinese AI competition, following Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release, and was paired with reports that Beijing approved Apple Intelligence in China using Alibaba technology, giving the Qwen rollout an additional Apple-powered distribution angle for developers in the region. The supplied e

The Alibaba Token Plan (China) provider profile confirms that the subscription-style model access product from Alibaba Cloud serves 24 models through the OpenAI-compatible endpoint at cn-beijing.maas.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1, with SDK identifier @ai-sdk/openai-compatible. The catalog lists a steady cadence of re As a subscription-only product, the Token Plan supersedes token-based pricing for all 24 listed models, and developers access it via Alibaba Cloud infrastructure headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The profile is a third-party aggregator snapshot last synced Jul 11, 2026, and it explicitly notes "No articles yet" for