Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, a multimodal artificial intelligence model built to handle coding, visual analysis, and tasks that require extended autonomous execution. The model has 2.4 trillion total parameters but activates only 95 billion parameters for each operation. According to Alibaba, the model can turn lengthy documents, television series, and livestreams into searchable knowledge bases. The company said Qwen3.8-Max ranked fifth in Text Arena, second in Vision Arena and fourth in Frontend Code Arena. Alibaba is making the model available to developers through application programming interfaces on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.