Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, challenging GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on AI benchmarks

Neowin — Aug 03, 05:30 AM

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Benchmarks show Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max outperforming Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, across 7 coding and general evaluation tasks and 36 multimodal benchmarks. https://www.neowin.net/news/alibaba-releases-qwen38-max-challenging-gpt-56-sol-and-claude-fable-5-on-ai-benchmarks/">Read more...

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