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Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 Max Rivals Claude | Durham News
Alibaba’s new Qwen 3.8 Max is flexing big, positioning itself just behind Claude 3.5 Sonnet — the AI benchmark everyone’s chasing — while Moonshot AI’s Kimi 3 makes similar claims. But here’s the twist: Alibaba just banned its own employees from using Claude Code over security concerns, after Anthropic accused them of stealing output via fake accounts. Meanwhile, Alibaba promises to open-source Qwen 3.8, letting users run it independently — a move that could reshape the AI landscape, even as all these claims remain unverified since they’re based on internal benchmarks, not third-party tests…
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