The Weights Are Due Next Week
Two open-weights announcements in the same few hours, and neither one has shipped weights yet. Underneath that, a stranger day: a security registry carrying vulnerability reports for code that was never written, and a research paper whose headline says close to the opposite of its abstract.
Alibaba announces Qwen3.8-Max — pitched at coding and agentic "cowork", with open weights promised and a 27-billion-parameter sibling due next week. The Hacker News thread hit 694 points, mostly arguing about the smaller model.
Susan Zhang's hands-on probe — the flagship "has the formatting style of Sol…
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