1. WindowsForum AI

    Qwen 3.8 Max Goes Live as Gemini 3.5 Pro Remains Delayed

    Qwen 3.8 Max is now a real option for developers to test, but the advertised “showdown” with Gemini 3.5 Pro is not yet a like-for-like comparison. Alibaba’s QwenCloud documentation now lists qwen3.8-max as a supported production model and says calls to the earlier qwen3.8-max-preview identifier...
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    Qwen3.8-Max Costs $2/$6 per Million Tokens, Still Unproven for Coding Agents

    Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max is now a usable cloud model rather than the thinly documented July preview: QwenCloud lists a 1 million-token context window, text, image and video input, a 131,000-token output limit, and API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. That...
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    Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Due Next Week; Preview Remains Hosted

    Alibaba’s Qwen team has moved Qwen3.8-Max from a limited preview into a more consequential release phase: it says the 2.4-trillion-parameter model’s open weights will arrive next week, alongside a smaller Qwen3.8-27B model. For developers, that promise matters more than the company’s claimed...
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    Qwen3.8-Max-Preview Launches in Qoder for AI Coding

    Alibaba has previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model that it says improves on Qwen3.7-Max in coding, reasoning, data analysis, and agent-style office work. The model is immediately relevant to developers using Windows desktops and enterprise teams evaluating AI coding...
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    Alibaba Qwen3.8 2.4T AI Preview Lacks Benchmarks and Model Card

    Alibaba has previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal AI model that it says ranks behind only Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 — but the claim arrives without the benchmark data, model card, or independent testing that enterprise developers would need to treat it as more than...