Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max Open-Source Challenge

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max (2.4T MoE, 95B active) with multimodal/agentic capabilities, claiming second only to Claude Fable 5 on coding benchmarks. Open-weights release next week, bundled with Token Plan for coding agents. Pricing at $2/$6 per M tokens. Analyst skepticism on 16-day autonomous coding run. Major competitive threat to US frontier labs in open-source AI.