Edition No. 29 · Tue 21 Jul 2026 · Story 9 of 25

"Alibaba's Qwen unveils preview of flagship AI model"

Bloomberg

Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8 Max at 2.4T parameters, describing it as second only to Fable 5, and promised open weights.

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