Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.
20-07-2026 13:15 via thenextweb.com

Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.

Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […]
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