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Alibaba's Qwen becomes the world's most-downloaded open AI model family

Apple Trained Its Own AI Model for China With Alibaba's Support

Apple has developed a custom large language model specifically for the Chinese market in partnership with Alibaba, marking a rare U.S.-China AI collaboration that gives Apple more control over its AI features in a key market where it has been losing ground to domestic rivals. According to Reuters, citing three people familiar with the matter, Apple trained the China-specific model with Alibaba's support. This departs from Apple's previous strategy of relying on third-party Chinese models to pow

Alibaba open-weights Qwen 3.8 with a 27B model that tops its bigger predecessor

Alibaba's Qwen team published the open weights for Qwen3.8 on Thursday, releasing the models under the Apache 2.0 license. The move puts a capable new open model directly into the hands of researchers and companies that want to fine-tune and self-host it. The centerpiece is Qwen3.8-27B, a 27 billion parameter multimodal dense model. Qwen says it outperforms the larger Qwen3.7-Plus on coding and office tasks, a notable result for a model less than a tenth the size of some frontier flagships. The

Alibaba launches Qwen 3.8-Max, benchmarks fall short of claims

Alibaba officially launched Qwen 3.8-Max on August 3, calling it the most powerful model in the Qwen family to date. The 2.4 trillion-parameter model supports a one-million-token context window and is multimodal, capable of processing text, images, video, and documents in a single prompt. The company priced Qwen 3.8-Max at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with implicit caching at $0.25 per million tokens. That positions it well below the pricing of frontier models f