Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, a powerful new AI model that challenges US competitors with significantly lower pricing.

• Qwen3.8-Max boasts 2.4 trillion parameters and handles 1 million tokens of context, comparable to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
• The model is significantly cheaper, costing approximately $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, a fraction of US flagship models.
• This release follows Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and highlights a trend of Chinese AI firms offering advanced models at competitive prices, impacting the global AI market.