Alibaba takes on OpenAI and Anthropic with its biggest AI model yet

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. debuted Qwen3.8-Max, its latest AI model, ahead of next week’s planned open-weight release to the public. The new model features 2.4 trillion parameters and outperforms Moonshot’s newly launched Kimi K3 on multiple benchmarks. It also marks the company’s return to its open-source roots after several of its top-tier AI models were...