#qwen

Qwen3.8-Max ships as a 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active and a 1M context. What the vendor benchmark table shows, and what is still only promised.

One week repriced the cheap end of the model market. A surface-labelled table of what Luna, Qwen3.7 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash now cost, and what that buys.

Qwen3.7 Flash listed at $0.03 per million input tokens on its base tier, 1M context and video input — but no published benchmarks. Where it fits in subagents.

Alibaba runs two parallel video lines: audio-native HappyHorse and open-leaning Wan 2.7. Neither is new, and their arena snapshots do not cleanly reconcile.

Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max at WAIC Shanghai, claiming 2.4 trillion parameters and second only to Fable 5 — yet shipped zero benchmarks to back it.

Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba ran 28.8M Claude queries via 25,000 fake accounts, the largest model-distillation campaign it has disclosed.

US frontier-model gating is pushing global builders toward open-weight models China already dominates. Does Washington's lockdown hand Beijing the edge?

GPU spend, ops headcount, latency, and break-even volume for hosting Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Mistral yourself vs API. With per-token cost curves at 4 scales.

Q2 2026 market share report on Chinese AI providers — Qwen, GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, Baichuan, and Yi. Usage data, licensing, and enterprise adoption.

Qwen3 model-family guide refreshed with 2026 caveats for Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, Coder, Thinking models, and deployment strategies.