Qwen 3.8 Max (Final Version Review & Free Ways): Okay, it's ACTUALLY a TOP MODEL!

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In this video, I'll be telling you about the official launch of Qwen 3.8 Max, Alibaba's new 2.4 trillion parameter flagship model that beats Opus 4.8 on most benchmarks, costs a fraction of the price, and is going fully open weight next week. -- Key Takeaways: 🚀 Qwen 3.8 Max is now officially launched, a 2.4T parameter MoE model with a 1M token context window and native multimodality. 🔓 The full open weights drop next week, along with a smaller Qwen 3.8 27B model for local use. 🤖 Qwen showcased 10+ days of fully autonomous coding, from empty folder to production, with the complete trace published on GitHub. 📊 It tops PaperBench and Terminal Bench 2.1, beating both Opus 4.8 and Fable 5, and is the best computer use model on OSWorld-Verified. 🏆 On my KingBench, it holds second place overall at 81.25%, just behind Fable 5 and above Opus 4.8. 💸 API pricing is just $2/M input and $6/M output, with implicit caching at $0.25/M, a fraction of what closed labs charge. 🆓 You can use it for free on Qwen Studio, though the Qwen Code free tier remains discontinued. 👍 Overall, this is arguably the biggest open source AI moment yet, and the closed labs should be worried.

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