Qwen 4.0 Max
Alibaba's current flagship is Qwen 3.8 Max, live since August 1: open weights for its 2.4T base followed August 12 and 3.8 Flash followed August 26. It came about ten weeks after Qwen 3.7 Max (May 20), which puts 4.0 Max next on the watch. On Sep 22 Alibaba confirmed Qwen 4 is in training; it gave no date. The second it answers on the public API, ArtificialWatch fires.
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Alibaba: Qwen 4 is in training
At the Apsara Conference, Alibaba said its next-generation model, Qwen 4, “is currently in training,” and laid out a roadmap for Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 “projected to scale up to 5 to 10 trillion parameters.” No release date, pricing or benchmarks. via Alibaba Cloud
The 2.4T base goes open-weight
Qwen published Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Hugging Face, the base of Qwen3.8-Max. Per the model card, the hosted Max adds vision input, non-thinking support, 1M context by default and built-in tools. via Hugging Face
Qwen3.8-Max launches: 2.4T MoE, 1M context
Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max, which it calls its largest flagship to date: a 2.4T-parameter sparse MoE with 95B active, a 1M-token context and API access through Model Studio, with weights “scheduled for release next week.” Our sweep had already seen it served as the flagship on chat.qwen.ai on Aug 1. via Alibaba Cloud
The market keeps Alibaba on top — 4.0 Max is the model it's pricing
At 96%, the top-CN-lab market is effectively settled sentiment. The open question is when the 3.7 line rolls over to 4.0 — and whether an open-weight Qwen 4 ships beside the Max.
Qwen 3.7 Max: 1M context, and it beats Opus 4.6 Max on the agentic benches
Announced at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou: 1M-token context, a 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis index, wins over Claude Opus 4.6 Max on Terminal-Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Pro and MCP-Atlas, and a claimed 35-hour autonomous run across 1,000+ tool calls — at $2.50/$7.50 per 1M tokens. via Alibaba · Digital Applied
The API went live a day before the keynote
Model Studio served 3.7 Max on May 19 — a day ahead of the announcement — with OpenRouter and Together AI cross-listings on day zero. Alibaba ships API-first, which is exactly the surface we sweep. via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Qwen 4.0: in training, no date — cadence is still the tell
Alibaba’s only official word is that Qwen 4 is in training (Sep 22). 3.6 → 3.7 took a quarter and 3.7 → 3.8 about ten weeks, and Alibaba hasn't let a flagship sit two full quarters since the Qwen 3 era. via Alibaba Cloud
The official word.
"At the conference, Alibaba revealed that its next-generation model, Qwen 4, is currently in training."
Alibaba Cloud, Apsara Conference roadmap · Sep 22, 2026 — no release date given
Until Qwen 4 Max ships: Qwen 3.8 Max.
Which model is current until Qwen 4 Max ships?
The current model in this line is Qwen 3.8 Max from Alibaba, live since August 1, 2026.
$2 / $6 per 1M tokens on Alibaba's API.
Hear it the second 4.0 Max answers.
We sweep chat.qwen.ai's public model list and the open catalogs every 60 seconds — Qwen ships to its own app first, which is how Qwen3.8-Max was caught. Email + Chrome push free, SMS and a phone call on paid tiers.