{"id":557933,"date":"2026-07-19T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557933\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:54:11","slug":"alibabas-qwen-takes-on-kimi-k3-with-open-weight-qwen-3-8-says-model-is-second-only-to-fable-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557933\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba&#8217;s Qwen takes on Kimi K3 with open-weight Qwen 3.8, says model is &#8220;second only to Fable 5&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba has unveiled Qwen 3.8, its latest open-weight model with 2.4 trillion parameters.\u00a0The Qwen team says it matches frontier models and trails only Fable 5. A preview is available through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qwencloud.com\/pricing\/token-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Alibaba&#8217;s Token Plan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.qoder.com\/events\/qwen-max-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Qoder, and QoderWork<\/a> at 10 percent of the standard price. Open weights are coming &#8220;soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.qoder.com\/events\/qwen-max-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Alibaba says<\/a>\u00a0Qwen 3.8 should outperform Qwen 3.7-Max, especially in coding and complex productivity tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and office workflows.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shuai_bai_\/status\/2078775798841119222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Developer Shuai Bai says<\/a>\u00a0it&#8217;s also the team&#8217;s first multimodal model with more than 1 trillion parameters and can process images, videos, and documents. No benchmark results are available yet.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/qwen38_teaser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"932\" height=\"707\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Qwen&#8217;s push is likely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/kimis-open-model-k3-nears-gpt-5-6-sol-and-fable-5-while-signaling-the-end-of-super-cheap-chinese-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">partly aimed at disrupting Kimi K3&#8217;s momentum<\/a>. Moonshot AI has promised open weights, but access currently runs through its chat app and API, turning interest into customers. Qwen&#8217;s release could disrupt that strategy. After reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue in June, Moonshot plans to go public in as little as six months,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-19\/china-s-moonshot-plans-ipo-in-six-months-after-ai-breakthrough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba has unveiled Qwen 3.8, its latest open-weight model with 2.4 trillion parameters.\u00a0The Qwen team says it matches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,8065,218,219,61,60,4075,80],"class_list":["post-557933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-qwen","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}