Alibaba's Qwen takes on Kimi K3 with open-weight Qwen 3.8, says model is "second only to Fable 5"

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Alibaba has unveiled Qwen 3.8, a multimodal AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters that the Qwen team says rivals leading models and trails only Fable 5. A preview is available now. The article Alibaba's Qwen takes on Kimi K3 with open-weight Qwen 3.