China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy

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Alibaba announced the release of its largest AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, claiming it can compete with top US systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The company is making this advanced model widely available to users.
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The Alibaba logo is displayed outside its headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. | Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available to users in a blog post published on Monday. The rele
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