Alibaba unveils its most capable AI model to date, not far behind Moonshot's in size
BABA•Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max
BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Reuters) - China's Alibaba unveiled what it said is its largest and most capable artificial-intelligence model, the Qwen3.8-Max, which is not far behind in size when compared with an offering from domestic rival Moonshot AI launched last month.
Alibaba said Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters, while Moonshot's Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters.
Software engineering project and rollout
Alibaba said the model completed a software-engineering project in 16 days.
The Qwen3.8-Max is due to be released next week through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio platform.
Leaderboard rankings and model capabilities
Qwen3.8-Max was unveiled on crowdsourced, model-comparison platform Arena.AI, where it immediately became the highest-ranking Chinese model in terms of text models, though it still lags Claude Fable 5 and three Opus variants, all from Anthropic.
On Arena.AI's leaderboard for AI models that analyse images and other visual material, Qwen3.8-Max ranked second globally, only behind a Claude Fable 5 variant.
