China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
The Verge
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model yet, rivaling top systems from US labs.Summary
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date, boasting performance that rivals top systems from US frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. With 2.4 trillion parameters, the model matches or exceeds competitors on various benchmarks and ranks highly on the Arena.AI leaderboard. Alibaba plans to release the model's weights next week, reinforcing China's broader strategy of open-weight releases to expand global tech influence and challenge American AI dominance.
(Source：The Verge)