China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivalling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available to users in a blog post published on Monday. The release had been expected after the company previewed the model last month, when it claimed it was "second only to Fable 5," Anthropic's flagship.
The open release of another highly capable Chinese AI model adds to sky-high tensions along multiple fronts in Silicon Valley and Washi …
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