AI News — August 07, 2026: Qwen3.8 Max Dethrones Opus 5 on Agentic Index, ChatGPT Free Tier Gets GPT-5.6
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max edged past Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 on Artificial Analysis's Agentic Index, though rankings fluctuated within minutes, highlighting tight clustering among frontier models. OpenA…