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Open-weight wave July/August 2026: GLM-5.3, DeepSeek V4-Pro, Qwen3.8
July to August 2026 brought a wave of open models: GLM-5.3, DeepSeek V4-Pro, Qwen3.8. What the permissive licenses mean for self-hosting.
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Alibaba's Qwen model family — a broad range of open dense and MoE models plus the proprietary Max line, with strong multilingual and coding performance.
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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4-trillion MoE with 1M context
Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max on August 2, 2026: a 2.4T-parameter MoE, 1M-token context, image and video input via closed API.
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Qwen 3.7 Max — Alibaba's agentic flagship with a 1M context
Alibaba ships Qwen 3.7 Max: 1M context, 35h autonomous, 1,158 tool calls. What the agentic flagship does and why vendor benchmarks call for caution.