Alibaba opened developer access to Qwen4-Max on November 11 — the first model in its Qwen4 generation. You have until November 25 to try it. After that, the preview model retires with no production path announced. That hard deadline, combined with zero published benchmark scores three days in, makes this one of the stranger flagship launches of 2026. What Qwen4-Max Is Qwen4-Max is Alibaba’s new multimodal reasoning flagship. It takes text, image, and video inputs and runs deep reasoning by default. Alibaba targets it at coding, frontend design, office productivity, and complex agentic workflows. The main new number: a 393,216-token […]
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