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Alibaba Releases New Qwen Model, Consolidates AI Office Tools

Published: Aug. 4, 2026 5:44 p.m. GMT+8

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Alibaba has launched QwenWork, an enterprise-level agent product integrating QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong. Photo: VCG

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled its largest artificial-intelligence (AI) model to date and consolidated three workplace-agent products into a new enterprise platform, stepping up its push to compete in both advanced models and AI-powered office software.

The Chinese tech giant said Monday that Qwen3.8-Max contains 2.4 trillion parameters, more than any previous model in its Qwen family. On the same day, Alibaba opened public testing of QwenWork, an enterprise AI agent created by combining QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong.

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Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model (95B activated), the second to surpass two trillion after Kimi K3.
It combined three products into QwenWork, an enterprise AI platform now in public testing.
Shares jumped 7% in Hong Kong and 5% in US; the model will be open-sourced next week.

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Who’s Who

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched Qwen3.8-Max (2.4 trillion parameters), its largest AI model, and created the QwenWork enterprise agent platform. The sparse MoE model emphasizes coding. Alibaba plans to open-source it next week. Shares jumped 7% in Hong Kong.

Moonshot AI: Moonshot AI (月之暗面) developed Kimi K3, the first Chinese AI model to surpass two trillion parameters. The article reports Kimi K3 is pricier than Alibaba's Qwen3.8 and outperforms it on the CodeArena benchmark.

Anthropic: According to the article, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 series outperformed Alibaba's Qwen3.8, which ranked fourth globally on the CodeArena benchmark for web-development tasks.

Tencent Holdings Ltd.: According to the article, Tencent Holdings Ltd. (腾讯控股有限公司) has an advantage in the competitive workplace-agent market because it combines its AI model-development capabilities with its large existing workplace platform, WeCom.

ByteDance Ltd.: According to the article, ByteDance Ltd. is a key competitor in the AI-powered workplace agent market. It holds an advantage by combining AI model development with its large existing workplace platform, Feishu.

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What Happened When

April 2023：: Alibaba launched Qwen, one of China's earliest general-purpose AI models designed to compete with ChatGPT.

Monday (specific date not provided in the text)：: Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, and opened public testing of QwenWork, an enterprise AI agent created by combining three workplace-agent products.

March 2026：: Qwen's former leader, Lin Junyang, resigned, and several other technical employees departed.

next week in 2026 (specific week not provided)：: Alibaba plans to open-source Qwen3.8-Max, making it the first flagship Qwen model to be released openly.

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