Aug 12 2026

Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Max's open weights, its first Max-class flagship release, under a custom license rather than Apache 2.0

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2.4T total , 95B active, on as Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B. The license requires a separate commercial agreement above $50M in trailing-12-month Model-as-a-Service revenue, following the precedent Moonshot AI set with Kimi K3. Resolves Prediction 2026-08-12-T1 correct, four days early.

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Alibaba ships the Qwen3.8-Max weights by August 16th · 65%, resolves August 16th 2026

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