… Qwen3.8-Max marks a return to open-weight releases for Alibaba after the company briefly pivoted towards proprietary releases for its more advanced models earlier this year. Open-weight releases have become a growing point of differentiation for China’s AI industry, where they have become the norm. …
… 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. It remains difficult to assess how capable either Chinese model is until they are fully released and independently tested. …
… Historically, Apple has used domestic Chinese models to bring generative AI to its devices sold there, as the US models it uses elsewhere — like OpenAI’s ChatGPT — aren’t available. …