Alibaba’s New AI Was Called Open-Source. Its Model Page Is Empty.

Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 — 2.4 trillion parameters, a million-token context, priced at roughly 40% of Claude Opus 5 on input. Across half a dozen outlets it was reported as open-source. As of 6 August there is no Qwen3.8-Max on Hugging Face, no Qwen3.8-27B, and no license. Weights are promised the week of 10 August; that date has not passed. The gap is not between Alibaba and…