Qwen3.8-Max: The Capability War Begins — Alibaba Matches US Closed-Model Pricing on Eve of Open-Weights Drop
Alibaba's August 3, 2026, release of Qwen3.8-Max is not a standard product launch; it is a calculated disruption of the global artificial intelligence hierarchy. By setting its API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens on the OpenRouter …
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