Qwen 3.8 Closes the Reasoning Gap, but Agentic Coding Remains a US Stronghold
The release of Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B shifts the open-weight frontier—just not in the direction the headline scores suggest. Alibaba has shipped a 2.4 trillion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 95 billion active parameters per token, under a custom license that locks commercial scaling behind a $50 million revenue threshold. The weights arrived on Hugging Face around August 12–13,…