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4 articles First covered Apr 17, 2026, latest Aug 3, 2026
An Alibaba Group office building with the company's orange logo sign above the entrance and cars parked outside.
AI·

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max beats Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench, and the weights go public next week

Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE that tops Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and trails it badly on SWE-bench Pro. It's the first open Max-tier Qwen.

An Alibaba booth at a Chinese technology trade expo, with the company's logo above a display floor.
Hardware·

Alibaba's new Zhenwu M890 chip is 3x faster and aimed straight at agent workloads

Alibaba showed the Zhenwu M890 at its Cloud Summit on May 19. 144 GB of memory, 800 GB/s interchip bandwidth, and Qwen3.7-Max riding on top.

Aikido Security illustration of the GPT-Proxy backdoor.
Security·

Malicious npm and PyPI packages turn dev servers into Chinese LLM proxies

Aikido found a stage-2 Go binary inside two health-check-themed packages that runs an OpenAI-compatible router routing Claude, GPT, and Gemini traffic through Chinese aggregators.

Header card from Simon Willison's 'Qwen3.6 beats Opus' post comparing pelican SVGs
AI·

Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B: the open MoE beating Opus 4.7 on Simon Willison's laptop

Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.