Alibaba Open-Sources 2.4T Qwen 3.8 Max, Signaling Geopolitical Shift
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for July 21st, 2026. Alibaba just reversed course and is open-sourcing Qwen 3.8 Max — a 2.4 trillion parameter model — and the reason behind the flip involves Xi Jinping's speech on open source. SARAH: That geopolitics angle is genuinely surprising, and it has r…
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