🎙️ EP 325: Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Max & Chinese AI Scores Perfect on Math Olympiad

AI Fire Daily · Aug 3, 2026 · 20m · transcript

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Alibaba has officially unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts flagship built for long-horizon agent execution and coding, with promises of open weights on the horizon. Meanwhile, mathematical AI reaches a historic benchmark as RedNote AI’s beta model dots-note-3.0 scored a perfect 42/42 on the 2026 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), delivering full written proofs with zero human intervention.

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A 2.4T parameter model with a 1M context…