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“Meet Qwen3.8-Max, our most capable model to date. Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released”

Alibaba Qwen Team, official launch announcement, 3 August 2026

Recorded 6 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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6 receipts: 1 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 4 add context.

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  1. 1Supports the claimlatent.space ↗

    Vals Index: #2 among open models, 66.1 score (matched Claude Opus 4.7)

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  2. 2Contradicts the claimyottalabs.ai ↗

    every stronger claim than that currently traces back to Alibaba's own press materials

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  3. 3Contextglbgpt.com ↗

    the table mixes official model reports, system cards, public leaderboards, and Qwen's in-house evaluations

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  4. 4Contextgithub.com ↗

    2026-08-12: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is now available on Hugging Face Hub and ModelScope

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  5. 5Contexthuggingface.co ↗

    Qwen3.8-Max is the official version based on Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B with more features

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  6. 6Contextglbgpt.com ↗

    GPT-5.6 Sol leads several reasoning or terminal-oriented rows, while Fable 5 remains especially competitive

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