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Sep 17, 2026Qwen / Alibaba Cloudmodel release

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash globally through Model Studio with text, image, audio, and video input, text output, a one-million-token context window, tool calling, and web search.

Alibaba Cloud · Read source ↗Added to map Sep 17, 2026

Sep 2, 2026Qwen / Alibaba Cloudmodel release

Alibaba updates Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba released the Qwen3.8-Max-0902 snapshot with stronger engineering-scale coding, collaborative agent orchestration, multimodal understanding, and a one-million-token context window.

Alibaba Cloud · Read source ↗Added to map Sep 2, 2026