Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Tops Code Arena, Beats Claude Opus 5
Alibaba's refreshed Qwen3.8-Max-0902 model has taken the top spot on Arena.ai's Code Arena coding leaderboard, narrowly outscoring Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.
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Qwen is the family of open-weight AI models developed by Alibaba Cloud, spanning language, code, and multimodal tasks. This hub covers Qwen’s model releases, capabilities, and its role as one of the most widely used open model families.
Alibaba's refreshed Qwen3.8-Max-0902 model has taken the top spot on Arena.ai's Code Arena coding leaderboard, narrowly outscoring Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.
Read more →Alibaba has open-sourced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter model that previews the architecture behind its coming Qwen4 family and trains far more cheaply than its predecessor.
Read more →Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Qwen3.8-27B, a 27.8-billion-parameter open-weight model that beats its predecessor on coding and reasoning benchmarks while fitting on a single high-end GPU.
Read more →Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model it calls second only to Anthropic's Claude, though no benchmarks have been published.
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Apple Intelligence is Apple's built-in AI system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — a mix of on-device models and a private cloud service that Apple says even it can't access.
Read more →China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for release, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering the assistant's text and image features on iPhones sold in the country.
Read more →China's new regulations targeting AI services that simulate human relationships take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to disable personalized companion agent features used by hundreds of millions of people.
Read more →Alibaba is banning employees from Anthropic's Claude Code effective July 10 after Anthropic revealed that accounts linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab ran 28.8 million unauthorized interactions with Claude in what the company called its largest ever distillation attack.
Read more →Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) is Alibaba Cloud's family of open-weight AI models — covering language, code, vision, audio, and more — and the world's most-downloaded AI model series as of 2026.
Read more →Alibaba's Qwen team released a language world model that learns to predict agent environment states across seven domains, offering a new approach to training AI agents without live systems.
Read more →Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly copy Claude's capabilities into Alibaba's Qwen model — calling it the largest known attack of its kind.
Read more →Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-AgentWorld, a family of open-source language world models that predict how digital environments respond to AI agent actions, with its 397B variant outscoring GPT-5.4 on the new AgentWorldBench benchmark.
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