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Qwen3.8-Max-Preview

Alibaba·

LLMsflagshipcloud

Overview

Preview of Alibaba's flagship Max model, unveiled at WAIC Shanghai. 2.4T-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts, natively multimodal (text, images, video, documents) with a 1M-token context window (inherited from Qwen3.7-Max). Active-parameter count, full benchmark suite and license were not disclosed at preview. Runs at 10% of standard pricing during the preview via Token Plan / Qoder; an open-weight release was announced as forthcoming.

Capabilities and innovations

2.4T total parameters (sparse MoE)1M context windowNatively multimodal (text, image, video, docs)Preview via Token Plan / QoderOpen weights planned2.4T Sparse MoEMultimodal Text/Image/Video/DocsOpen-Weight Max Release Planned

Benchmarks

No benchmark values are recorded for this model.

  • GPQA Diamond: independent evaluation pending — Preview at WAIC 2026-07-19; benchmark table not yet published, no independent evals
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): independent evaluation pending
  • SWE-bench Pro: independent evaluation pending
  • MMLU-Pro: independent evaluation pending
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: independent evaluation pending
  • MMMU-Pro: independent evaluation pending

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
2400B total (MoE)

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