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Promise kept, then fine print swapped

Alibaba kept its open-weights promise, then swapped the fine print.

“Alibaba said open weights for Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B would be published the week of August 10, 2026 on Hugging Face and ModelScope.”

Alibaba Qwen team, 3 August 2026

Recorded 13 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

4 receipts: 1 support the claim, 0 contradict it, 3 add context. 3 figures on the record, 1 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimtestingcatalog.com ↗

    Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights

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  2. 2Contextneomanex.com ↗

    as of Monday Aug 10, no repository exists and no license has been disclosed.

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  3. 3Contextdigitalapplied.com ↗

    At the time of writing no matching repository appears on the Qwen organisation page at Hugging Face.

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  4. 4Contexthuggingface.co ↗

    the aggregate revenue of the licensee and its affiliates exceeds US$50,000,000

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