{"id":23415,"date":"2026-07-19T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-previews-qwen3-8-claiming-its-strength-trails-only-anthropics-fable-5\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:29:51","slug":"alibaba-previews-qwen3-8-claiming-its-strength-trails-only-anthropics-fable-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-previews-qwen3-8-claiming-its-strength-trails-only-anthropics-fable-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"8.2631578947368\">Alibaba Group Holding has previewed its next-generation artificial intelligence model Qwen3.8, which the company says is &ldquo;second only&rdquo; to Anthropic&rsquo;s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Claude Fable 5<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"13.014814814815\">Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the preview version of the strongest model of the Qwen family, had been made available on Alibaba&rsquo;s Token Plan subscription service, as well as its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Qoder and QoderWork<\/span> agentic platforms, the Chinese tech giant said on an official X post on Sunday.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With 2.4 trillion parameters, it was &ldquo;one of the most powerful models available today, comparable to leading frontier AI models, second only to Fable 5&rdquo;, Alibaba said on the post, referring to Anthropic&rsquo;s most capable widely released model to date.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Parameters are a machine-learning measure of AI system complexity, with higher figures generally indicating stronger models.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.733333333333\">The announcement, made during the country&rsquo;s top AI summit, the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">World AI Conference<\/span> (WAIC) in Shanghai, underscored how Chinese AI developers have entered the &ldquo;multi-trillion parameter&rdquo; age.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">The Qwen logo is seen at WAIC in Shanghai on July 17. Photo: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic&rsquo;s Fable 5<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba Group Holding has previewed its next-generation artificial intelligence model Qwen3.8, which the company says is &ldquo;second only&rdquo; to Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Fable 5. Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the preview version of the strongest model of the Qwen family, had been made available on Alibaba&rsquo;s Token Plan subscription service, as well as its Qoder and QoderWork agentic platforms, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-previews-qwen3-8-claiming-its-strength-trails-only-anthropics-fable-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, claiming its strength trails only Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}