News Summary

• Alibaba says its latest model can compete with Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.
• The company says Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters, a numerical measure of the settings a model learns during training that it uses to process data, recognize patterns, and undertake various tasks.
• The release intensifies competition with China, whose firms appear to be rapidly narrowing the gap with US companies and have increased the tempo of releases in recent weeks.
• The open release of another highly capable Chinese AI model adds to sky-high tensions along multiple fronts in Silicon Valley and Washington over how to safely manage AI systems.