{"slug": "alibaba-s-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-it-s-great", "title": "Alibaba's new Qwen model is also taking your job, but this time it's great", "summary": "Alibaba's new Qwen 3.8 model is marketed with a positive spin, showing a human pursuing hobbies while the AI handles work, contrasting with fear-based messaging from OpenAI and Anthropic. The video promotes the idea of handing off tasks to AI as appealing, though Alibaba's approach may oversimplify AI's actual labor market impact.", "body_md": "# Alibaba's new Qwen model is also taking your job, but this time it's great\n\n**Alibaba is taking a very different marketing approach with its new AI model than OpenAI or Anthropic.** Instead of threatening people with job losses, a marketing video makes the idea of handing off work sound appealing. [Qwen 3.8](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-open-weight-qwen3-8-max-takes-on-long-horizon-ai-tasks-with-2-4-trillion-parameters/) does the job while the human pursues hobbies. Alibaba is distancing itself from the [fear-based messaging other AI companies](https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-and-anthropic-ceos-expect-ai-to-hit-entry-level-jobs-and-internships-in-2026/) favor, where the emphasis tends to fall on how many jobs will soon disappear.\n\nAlibaba is oversimplifying AI's actual impact on the labor market just as much as the doomsday scenarios from its competitors. But a positive spin looks a lot better for a publicly traded company. [OpenAI](https://the-decoder.com/openai-ceo-altman-is-now-pretty-sure-ai-is-net-job-creating-which-is-quite-the-pivot-from-predicting-mass-layoffs/) and [Anthropic have caught on too](https://the-decoder.com/sam-altman-and-dario-amodei-walk-back-their-ai-job-apocalypse-predictions/) and have started striking a much softer tone. So far, [there's no evidence](https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-new-study-shows-ai-is-nowhere-near-its-theoretical-job-disruption-potential/) that AI is having a major effect on the job market or [even on productivity](https://the-decoder.com/frontier-radar-2-why-ai-productivity-gets-lost-between-benchmarks-and-the-balance-sheet/). [Financial markets are a different story](https://the-decoder.com/sp-global-sees-openai-as-a-key-credit-risk-for-oracle-and-cuts-its-credit-rating/).\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[Qwen](https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084093402967396594)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-it-s-great", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-its-great/", "published_at": "2026-08-03 17:12:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 17:46:33.216445+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen 3.8", "OpenAI", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-it-s-great", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-it-s-great.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-it-s-great.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-s-new-qwen-model-is-also-taking-your-job-but-this-time-it-s-great.jsonld"}}