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Alibaba unleashes Qwen 3.8 Max: 2.4 trillion parameters in total, 95 billion active, 1 million context tokens, native multimodal. The weights will be released open source one week after the announcement. Second largest open model in the world behind Kimi K3. China continues to flood the market.
22 months after leaving OpenAI, Mira Murati has delivered the first model from Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling, with 975 billion parameters in open weights. A lighter version, Inkling Small (276 B), will follow. What it is, where it's available, and why it positions Murati against Anthropic and OpenAI.
In a matter of weeks, three major Chinese models have been released in open-weights: DeepSeek V4 Flash (ultra-efficient LLM), MiniMax H3 (coherent video multimodal), and ByteDance Seedance 2.5 (AI video up to 7× cheaper than Sora and Veo). An overview and a reminder of what's at stake against Western players.
Moonshot AI released the open weights of Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter MoE, at the end of July 2026. A paid API exists in parallel. Breakdown: what's free, what's paid, and why the license isn't fully open.