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Alibaba previews 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max, calling it second only to Claude Fable 5

Alibaba previews 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max, calling it second only to Claude Fable 5

Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max at Shanghai's World AI Conference, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it calls 'second only' to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — though the ranking rests on Alibaba's own word, with no benchmark table, model card, or license yet public. Shipping through its Token Plan subscription and Qoder agentic platforms, the preview lands two days after Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3, marking how fast Chinese labs have pushed into multi-trillion-parameter frontier scaling.

Source: scmp.com ↗

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second only to Fable 5

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Why this matters

  • → Chinese labs now shipping 2.4+ trillion-parameter models, narrowing frontier gap with US leaders
  • → Alibaba's ranking claim rests on self-assessment with no public benchmarks or model card yet
China's trillion-parameter sprint