Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing that is lower than several competing systems.
Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters and uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, which activates only part of the model for each request. Alibaba said around 95 billion parameters are active at a time, reducing costs and response delays compared with activating the full model.
DeepSeek uses a similar sparse architecture at a smaller scale. Artificial Analysis lists V4-Flash at 284 billion total parameters, with 13 billion active during inference, while…
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