{"slug": "alibabas-ai-model-qwen3-8-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-of-open-weights", "title": "Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release", "summary": "Alibaba Group Holding has made its next-generation flagship AI model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week. The 2.4-trillion-parameter model supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens and is available via Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio APIs and QwenWork, Alibaba's workplace AI agent platform. The move marks Alibaba's return to open-sourcing its top-tier AI models after keeping several recent flagship releases proprietary.", "body_md": "Advertisement\n\n# Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release\n\nFlagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and the ability to carry out long-horizon agentic tasks\n\n2-MIN READ2-MIN\n\n[Wency Chen](/author/wency-chen)in Shanghai\n\n[Alibaba Group Holding](https://www.scmp.com/topics/alibaba?module=inline&pgtype=article)has made its next-generation flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model\n\n[Qwen3.8-Max](https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3361119/alibaba-says-newest-qwen-ai-model-second-only-anthropics-claude-fable-5?module=inline&pgtype=article)widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week.\n\nThe move marks Alibaba’s return to open-sourcing its top-tier AI models after keeping several recent flagship releases proprietary earlier this year. It also signals the firm’s entry into a recent round of powerful releases by Chinese developers aggressively\n\n[narrowing the gap with leading US labs](https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3357449/chinas-trillion-parameter-ai-race-how-developers-strive-narrow-gap-us-rivals?module=inline&pgtype=article).The massive 2.4-trillion-parameter model supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens and is available to global developers via Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio application programming interfaces (APIs), as well as through\n\n[QwenWork](https://www.scmp.com/topics/qwen?module=inline&pgtype=article), the company’s workplace AI agent platform, Alibaba announced on Monday.A multimodal foundation model, Qwen3.8-Max can process various types of data from lengthy documents to television series and live streams to build searchable knowledge bases, according to Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post.\n\nThe company also said the model could recreate software applications from screenshots, generate interactive games and educational animations, and convert two-dimensional floor plans into 3D visualisations.\n\nAlibaba has positioned Qwen3.8-Max as particularly suited for autonomous coding, complex research and other long-running tasks.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nSelect Voice\n\nSelect Speed\n\n1.00x", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-ai-model-qwen3-8-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-of-open-weights", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3362738/alibabas-ai-model-qwen38-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-open-weights-release?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-08-03 03:01:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 03:04:21.385464+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Alibaba Group Holding", "Qwen3.8-Max", "Alibaba Cloud", "Model Studio", "QwenWork"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-ai-model-qwen3-8-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-of-open-weights", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-ai-model-qwen3-8-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-of-open-weights.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-ai-model-qwen3-8-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-of-open-weights.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-ai-model-qwen3-8-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-of-open-weights.jsonld"}}