IBL News | New York
Alibaba Group released the latest model in its popular Qwen series, Qwen3.8-Flash, which is available for download starting August 26.
With 125 billion parameters, its performance is competitive with some of the latest releases by rivals such as Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and DeepSeek’s V4-Flash, Alibaba said in a statement.
Qwen3.8-Flash uses an architecture designed for the next generation of models: the Qwen 4 series. That new system significantly reduces training and inference costs.
Alibaba is China’s biggest spender on AI, pledging more than $57 billion over three years toward AI development and infrastructure building.
To fund that effort, it raised US$10.2 billion last month in Hong Kong’s largest follow-on share offering.