China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
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 […]
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, has unveiled its latest AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, which it claims rivals the performance of the top AI systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI. This move comes amidst escalating tensions in Silicon Valley and Washington over AI supremacy. Alibaba's release of Qwen3.8-Max, made widely available to users on Monday, follows a preview of the model earlier this month, where the company had claimed it was second only to Fable 5, Anthropic's flagship model.
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