Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max achieves top benchmark ranks, rivals GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus 5
ByPulseAugur Editorial·[18 sources]·
Alibaba's Qwen has released Qwen3.8-Max, a large language model with 2.4 trillion parameters, which has achieved a top ranking in the Image-to-WebDev Arena and Text-to-Image Arena benchmarks. The model demonstrates strong performance, outperforming competitors like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 in certain evaluations, while also being significantly cheaper. Alongside the Max version, Alibaba is also releasing an open-weight Qwen3.8-27B model, making advanced AI capabilities more accessible for local deployment.
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Sets new SOTA on image-to-web development and text-to-image benchmarks, while offering a cost-effective and locally deployable open-weight alternative.
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Frontier-lab model release with system card and benchmark results.
A quick snapshot of where Qwen3.8-Max stands today:
Qwen3.8-Max now ranks #5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and #1 on the Agentic Index!🥇
We'll keep pushing forward. 🚀 https://t.co/1bt811Rbvx
X — Qwen (Alibaba)
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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been using 3.6 27B Q4, and that quant is fast on an M5. The code has been average, but consistently “good enough.” And, after a year, I can see home LLMs being served at home much like streaming music was introduced. A simple browser extensi…
🔥 Qwen just announced Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B. - May be the strongest in its class - Runs on ~17 GB RAM/VRAM - Brings frontier-level capabilities within reach of consumer hardware. Open-weight AI keeps getting better. 👉 https:// openlm.ai/qwen3.8/ # AI # LLM # LocalAI # Qwen
<p>Alibaba made Qwen 3.8 Max generally available today (August 3): roughly 2.4 trillion parameters as a Mixture of Experts, a 1 million token context window, image and video input, and launch scores like 92.6 on GPQA Diamond and 86.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. The part that matters f…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Qwen announced Qwen3.8 a few hours ago, and it looks like we’re getting a new 27B model!</p> <p>Really excited to try this one locally. </p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FormOne2615"> /u/FormO…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>2.4 T parameter model. open weights coming soon!</p> <p><a href="https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084093402967396594?s=20">https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084093402967396594?s=20</a></p> <p>Edit: It is live now -> <a href="https://www.qwe…
