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Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model, claiming it rivals top US systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The model, with 2.4 trillion parameters, ranks near the top on Arena.AI, and Alibaba will release its weights next week, marking a return to open-weight strategy amid intensifying US-China AI competition.
Microsoft and OpenAI have changed their agreement to lessen mutual reliance during the intense global AI competition. Microsoft keeps licensing rights to OpenAI's technology until 2032 but loses exclusivity. This shift allows OpenAI to work with other cloud providers while paying Microsoft a capped revenue share.