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… Results from Alibaba’s own testing shared on Monday suggests it’s as powerful as claimed, as does its ranking on crowdsourced model-comparison platform Arena.AI. Alibaba’s own testing shows the model’s performance to broadly match — and sometimes exceed — that of Fable 5 on benchmark tests. …
… The China-focused large language model was developed in partnership with Alibaba and trained with the company’s support, Reuters reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with the matter. …
… Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is a 2.4 trillion parameter model and “continuously evolving.” Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic disclose exact parameter counts for their leading systems. …
… To navigate local regulations, Apple is tapping domestic tech giants, integrating Alibaba’s Qwen and Baidu’s AI models to power the experience for Chinese users, as reported last year. …
… The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba’s record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from The Associated Press and CNN. …
… Days later, Chinese tech titan Alibaba followed with a preview of Qwen3.8. …
… We should note here that these concerns are likely being voiced in response to the release of open-weight models from Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Moonshot, which isn’t the same thing as being open-source, and the models Meta has released so far aren’t truly open-source either. …
… The issue was first reported by a Reddit user earlier this week when they discovered the second Xteink X4 they had purchased from Taobao a Chinese online retailer owned by Alibaba wasn’t recognized as a USB device by their computer. …
… Whereas for us, we are just looking at more just browser experience, user experience.” Users can choose which AI model they want to use in Smart Window, including Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, OpenAI’s oss-gpt-120b, Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, or their own local AI models. “We’re loo… …
… Kyle Miller, a senior research analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, made a similar point, citing Alibaba’s large family of Qwen open-weight AI models in China as an example of how deeply embedded an open system can become across an industry. …