How Alibaba’s New Qwen3.8-Max Stacks Up Against US AI Giants

Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max on Monday with its first published benchmarks, and the model ranked fourth on Arena’s Frontend Code leaderboard. Only Claude Opus 5 and Moonshot’s Kimi K3 scored higher in the test. The 2.4 trillion-parameter model exits its July preview with 95 billion active parameters, a 1 million-token context window, and public API pricing.