Qwen 3.8 Max Lands at 2.4T Parameters / 95B Active With 87.3% SWE-bench — but the Open Weights Still Aren't on Hugging Face and the License Reportedly Excludes the US, EU, UK and Korea

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Alibaba announced Qwen 3.8 Max on August 3, 2026: a 2.4T-parameter sparse MoE with ~95B active per token, 1M context, 128k max output, priced at $2/M input and $6/M output with $0.25/M cached. It scores 87.3% on SWE-bench, 67.4 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (up from 61.0 for Qwen 3.7 Max), #4 on Frontend Code Arena at 1,668 Elo and #2 on Vals Index among open-weight models at 66.1. The catch AINews flagged: weights for both Max and the companion Qwen3.8-27B were promised "next week" on Hugging Face/ModelScope with no license named at announcement, and community reports say usage is restricted in the US, EU, UK and Korea — a sharp break from the Apache 2.0 pattern of prior Qwen lines.