Alibaba Unveils 2.4T Parameter Flagship Model Qwen3.8-Max: 16-Day Independent Development and Open-Sourced Weights Spark Heated Discussion

On August 3, 2026, Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, which features a 2.4T MoE architecture and a million-token context window. It internally built and open-sourced oh-my-cli without manual intervention during 16 days of testing. The post on Hacker News gained over 1090 points. Next week will mark the first open release of the Max-level model weights, with support for OpenAI and Claude Code compatible APIs, sparking discussions about long-range programming Agents.