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Alibaba's Qwen3.8 AI Model Goes Open-Weight

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Alibaba's Qwen team announced the upcoming launch of Qwen3.8, a new AI model that will be released under an open-weight license. The model aims to advance open-source AI development with improved performance. No specific release date or benchmark details were provided.

Meridian48 take
Open-weight releases from major labs like Alibaba keep pressure on proprietary models, but without benchmarks, it's unclear how Qwen3.8 stacks up against rivals.
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