# Alibaba — Qwen3.8-Max

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## Model

- Name: Qwen3.8-Max
- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Launch post: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork — https://forck.live/items/4620-qwen3-8-max-a-new-bar-for-coding-and-cowork
- Announced: 2026-08-03T02:00:00+00:00
- Launch source: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
- Launch chosen by: a person, pinned in the model registry
- Released (per models.dev): not stated
- Listed (per OpenRouter): not stated
- Open weights: not stated
- Posts about it: 1
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- Variant: Qwen3.8-Max-0902 — https://forck.live/models/qwen3-8-max-0902

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### Alibaba — Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-03T02:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4620-qwen3-8-max-a-new-bar-for-coding-and-cowork
- Subject: Qwen

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter model (95B active) with improvements across coding, work, research, and long-horizon tasks. Open weights will be released next week. The model demonstrated autonomous coding capabilities, including reproducing research papers and beating human teams in a competition.

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