Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8, 'Second only to Fable 5'
The 2.4 trillion-parameter model is available on Alibaba’s own platforms and is expected to go open-weight soon.
- Alibaba shares surged more than 3.5% in overnight trading on Monday after unveiling its Qwen3 Max preview, which the company claims is "second only to Anthropic's Fable 5."
- Days earlier, Chinese contemporary Moonshot unveiled Kimi, an open-weight model that surged in interest, forcing the company to pause new subscriptions on Sunday.
- Across cited benchmarks, Kimi trailed only OpenAI's GPT-5 Sol and Anthropic's Fable 5, outperforming both in coding tasks and available on Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork.
- Rival AI makers faced sharp declines: Zhipu shares fell more than 45% in five days, while MiniMax lost nearly 13% in five days and more than 61% over the past month.
- Moonshot plans to go public in six months riding the wave of interest in Chinese models, while Alibaba's flagship Owen model is expected to go open-weight soon.
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Alibaba, Moonshot launches mark new phase in China's AI race
Days after Chinese startup Moonshot AI introduced its latest large language model, Alibaba on Sunday, July 19, released a preview version of Qwen3.8-Max, the latest sign that competition among the country's AI developers is accelerating.Alibaba said
New AI models from the People's Republic record it with Anthropic and Open AI. This shakes the stock exchanges.
Alibaba Qwen3.8 Max Is Answer to Anthropic's Fable 5; Know What It Brings | 📲 LatestLY
Alibaba has launched its 2.4 trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 Max AI model to compete with top global systems like Anthropic’s Fable 5. This follows Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 release, highlighting China’s rapid progress in closing the AI capabilities gap with Silicon Valley through open-weight models. 📲 Alibaba Qwen3.8 Max Is Answer to Anthropic's Fable 5; Know What It Brings.
Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model
Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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