Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max launches with 2.4T params, 1M-token context

Alibaba's Qwen team moved Qwen3.8-Max from preview to general availability, publishing per-token pricing with open weights due next week. The 2.4 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model accepts text, image, and video input across a 1 million-token context window; no benchmark table has been published yet.

Why it matters: This is one of the largest open-weight models released to date and continues the trend of Chinese labs like Alibaba and Moonshot AI claiming parity with US frontier labs while actually releasing weights, unlike most closed US frontier releases. The absence of published benchmarks at GA launch means claims of rivaling Anthropic and OpenAI's best systems remain unverified until independent evals land.