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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B as open-weight frontier model

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Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, marking the first open-weights release of a Qwen-Max-class model. This large model, featuring a hybrid attention architecture and 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion activated per token, is designed for demanding agentic and reasoning tasks. The release includes open weights and demonstrates deployment on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod using vLLM with NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs, offering an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for open-weight frontier models, potentially accelerating self-hosted AI deployments for complex agentic tasks.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with open weights and system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B as open-weight frontier model

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  1. AWS Machine Learning Blog TIER_1 English(EN) · Dmitry Soldatkin ·

    Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

    Learn how to deploy Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM. This walkthrough covers cluster provisioning, NVFP4 quantization, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with built-in reasoning, tool calling, and native MTP spe…

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