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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max Open Weights Arrive With a Catch: 2.4T MoE Is Text-Only at This Size
Alibaba released the open-weight checkpoint for Qwen 3.8-Max on August 12-13, 2026 under a custom license. Designated Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, the weights cover the full 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE architecture with 95B active parameters — but the public checkpoint is text-only, without the multimodal and 1M-context capabilities of the API version.