After Kimi K3, now Alibaba launches Qwen 3.8 with 2.4 T parameters

Alibaba's Qwen team on July 19 unveiled Qwen 3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal AI model that the company says rivals the world's leading frontier systems. The team described the model as "second only to Fable 5" — a reference to Anthropic's top-tier Claude model — though Alibaba has not yet published independent benchmarks to support the claim. Qwen 3.8 is built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture and represents the team's first multimodal model exceeding one trillion parameters.