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Qwen3.8-Max: The Capability War Begins — Alibaba Matches US Closed-Model Pricing on Eve of Open-Weights Drop

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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max reaches direct price parity with US closed models while committing to open-source Max-class weights around August 10 — the DeepSeek playbook executed at $300B+ scale.

First report: Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max AI Model Claims Benchmark Scores Rivaling Anthropic — bloomberg.com, 8d