Alibaba unveiled its most advanced AI model yet, boosting its shares as the company strengthens its challenge to leading U.S. artificial intelligence developers.
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, describing it as the most powerful model in its Qwen artificial intelligence family as competition between China and the United States intensifies in the global AI industry.
The company said the new model, scheduled for release next week, contains 2.4 trillion parameter the internal settings that enable AI systems to learn patterns, understand information, and generate responses. According to Alibaba, the model ranks among the largest AI systems developed by the company.
Following the announcement, Alibaba's shares rose about 7% in Hong Kong trading, while its U.S. listed shares gained more than 4% in premarket trading, reflecting positive investor sentiment toward the company's expanding AI capabilities.
Alibaba said Qwen3.8-Max supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens, allowing it to process and analyze extremely large amounts of information in a single prompt. This enables the model to work with lengthy documents, books, research papers, and other large datasets without losing context.
The company said the AI model is designed to perform a wide range of professional tasks, including software development, financial analysis, legal document review, scientific research, and architectural design.
Alibaba also said the model can analyze extensive visual content, including hundreds of pages of documents, television series, and long-duration livestreams, converting them into searchable and interactive knowledge resources.
Alibaba said internal testing showed Qwen3.8-Max achieved performance comparable to, and in some cases exceeding, Anthropic's Fable 5 across several AI benchmarks. The company added that the model ranked second in Vision Arena evaluations and fifth in Text Arena assessments.
The launch comes as Chinese AI companies continue to expand their capabilities. Earlier this month, domestic competitor Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K3, a model featuring 2.8 trillion parameters, making it one of China's largest AI systems.
Alibaba said the new model is capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy. In one internal test, the system reportedly spent 16 days independently building and improving an AI coding tool by writing software, testing its own work, correcting errors, and refining performance with minimal human intervention.
The latest release underscores Alibaba's commitment to expanding its AI portfolio as Chinese technology firms invest heavily to narrow the gap with leading U.S. developers. Artificial intelligence has become a strategic priority for major technology companies worldwide, with competition centered on building more capable models for enterprise, research, and consumer applications.
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