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Qwen released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Hugging Face

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FACT STATEMENT

Qwen (Alibaba) released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Hugging Face. The model has 2.4T total parameters, 95B activated, 92 layers, 512 experts (10 routed + 1 shared), context length 262,144 natively extensible to 1,010,000 tokens. It is a causal language model with pre-training and post-training. Qwen3.8-Max is the official API version with vision input, non-thinking support, 1M context length by default, and built-in tools.

China context

Original name
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
Outside China
Open weights · huggingface.co
Claims
Company-reported; not yet independently evaluated
For builders
Developers outside China can download the weights from Hugging Face and run the model with vLLM, SGLang, or TokenSpeed.
For investors
The open release of a Qwen-Max-class model may pressure other frontier labs to release open weights or adjust API pricing.
What happened

Qwen released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4T-parameter open-weights model with 95B activated parameters, on Hugging Face. The model is compatible with vLLM, SGLang, and TokenSpeed. Qwen3.8-Max, the API version, adds vision input, non-thinking support, 1M context length, and built-in tools.

Technical significance

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B uses a hybrid architecture with 23 blocks of 3 Gated DeltaNet layers followed by 1 Gated Attention layer, each with MoE. It has 512 experts with 10 routed and 1 shared per token. The model supports multi-token prediction and reasoning effort control.

Industry impact

This is the first Qwen-Max-class model released as open weights, following community adoption of Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6. The release includes a managed API option via Qwen Cloud.

Decision value

Open-weights release of a Qwen-Max-class model allows developers to self-host a frontier-scale model, while Qwen Cloud offers a managed API with additional features.

What to watch

Observable next signals include adoption of Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B in downstream tools and benchmarks, and whether Qwen3.8-Max API pricing or availability changes.

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