Alibaba has unveiled its new flagship neural network, Qwen 3.8 Max, with 2.4 trillion parameters, which Chinese…

Alibaba has unveiled its new flagship neural network, Qwen 3.8 Max, with 2.4 trillion parameters, which Chinese experts claim surpasses GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable. Key facts: • The AI can independently carry out long-running tasks for up to 16 days without human involvement; • In a demo, the model spent 12 hours autonomously designing a chip; • In benchmarks, Alibaba Qwen 3.8 Max outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, and Fable on several metrics, taking first place in the Frontend Code Arena competition; • API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, cheaper than many rivals; • Next week, the company plans to release the weights for Qwen 3.8 Max and the compact Qwen 3.8-27B version. You can try it here (https://chat.qwen.ai/).