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Qwen3.8-Max Just Went GA: A Developer's Guide to Alibaba's 2.4T Model

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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model with 1M-token context, multimodal input, and OpenAI-compatible API, priced at $2/$6 per million tokens. With ~95B active parameters per token, it's cheaper than competitors like Kimi K3. Caching cuts input costs 8x, so prefix stability is critical. Open weights arrive the week of August 10.

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