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Alibaba will release the full weights of Qwen 3.8 Max model next week.

Reported on The AI Breakdown · The AI Breakdown · Aug 4, 2026

The full weights will be released next week.

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Alibaba publicly releases the complete model weights for Qwen 3.8 Max on their official repository or channels

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Marked incorrect on Sep 1, 2026.

Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max around July 19-22, 2026 promising open weights 'next week', but sources indicate the open-weight checkpoint did not land on Hugging Face until August 12-13, 2026 -- after the 2026-08-11 resolve_by date. Strengthened via local verification (2026-09-01): explainx.ai, "Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Are Live (August 2026)" — "Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B landed on Hugging Face Aug 12, 2026." — https://explainx.ai/blog/qwen3-8-max-open-weights-live-hugging-face-august-2026. Additional c

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