Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal AI with 2.4 trillion total parameters, and plans to make it an open model with open weights while requiring major commercial users to share revenue, though the rate is undecided.
Alibaba's Qwen team announced Qwen3.8-Max on August 10, 2026. The model is multimodal, handling text, images, and video, with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active parameters. It supports a 1 million token context. In some benchmarks it surpassed Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
The announcement highlighted a 16-day autonomous run in which the model produced 265 commits and 127 pull requests, reproducing a research paper and proposing 18 improvements. This demonstration was framed as pushing multimodal AI from understanding to continuous autonomous work.
Two days later, reports said Alibaba will make Qwen3.8-Max an open model with open weights, but will require major commercial users to share revenue. The move follows Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 license, which mandates commercial contracts for businesses with annual sales over $20 million. Alibaba's revenue sharing rate is undecided.
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Alibaba will make Qwen3.8-Max an open model with open weights, but plans to require major commercial users to share revenue, according to sources. The move follows Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 license, which mandates commercial contracts for businesses with annual sales over $20 million. Alibaba's revenue sharing rate is undecided.
Alibaba's Qwen team announced Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal AI with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active parameters. It handles text, images, and video, with a 1 million token context. In some benchmarks it surpassed Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The model ran 16 days autonomously, producing 265 commits and 127 pull requests.