Qwen 3.8 Max to be open-weighted, Alibaba announces

Alibaba signaled that Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter model with multimodality and native video understanding, will be open-weighted for public use. The announcement came via Alibaba's Qwen team, which stated they are working toward an official version and plan to open-weight it for everyone. The move follows Kimi K3's emergence as a strong open-weight contender in agentic and frontend tasks.