On September 2, Alibaba updated its flagship model Qwen3.8-Max, which has seen a significant performance boost compared to the old version. After specialized post-training for programming and professional office work, the new version of Qwen3.8-Max has enhanced overall performance. On CodeArena, a global authoritative third-party ranking for front-end programming capabilities, its score increased by 22 points to 1691 points, surpassing models such as Claude Opus5 and Kimi K3 to rank first overall. Meanwhile, CodeArena's updated model price-performance ratio ranking (Pareto frontier) shows that the new version of Qwen3.8-Max costs an average of only $5 per million tokens, "killing" all other models with prices above $5. It is understood that Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's most powerful large language model to date, with a total of 240 billion parameters and support for 1 million context tokens. The updated Qwen3.8-Max has emerged with even stronger intelligent programming capabilities, making it more suitable for complex tasks, scientific research, and long-cycle tasks. Currently, the new Qwen3.8-Max model has been launched on the Qianwen AI platform to
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