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Alibaba Plans Revenue Share From Commercial Use of Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba plans to seek a share of revenue from major commercial users of its Qwen3.8-Max AI model, Reuters reports, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The model is expected to…
The Story in Brief
Alibaba plans to seek a share of revenue from major commercial users of its Qwen3.8-Max AI model, Reuters reports, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The model is expected to be released next week as an open-weight offering, allowing developers to download and adapt its underlying settings.
The Hindu reports that Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters, compared with 2.8 trillion in Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. Alibaba says it can process text, images and video, handle up to 1 million tokens, and uses only 95 billion parameters for each request. The model ranked highly on Arena.AI, though Anthropic models remained ahead in text comparisons.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy version of this story says open-weight means free, while the triumphalist version treats parameter counts as proof of superiority. Neither holds. Alibaba’s planned revenue sharing follows Moonshot’s commercial licensing model, and a larger model does not automatically perform better. The useful test is simple: what fee will Alibaba set, and how well does Qwen3.8-Max perform in independent commercial deployments?
Sources (3): hindustantimes.com, thehindu.com, livemint.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
