Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

#1

Post by zkmon » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC

Re: Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

#2

Post by wsintra2022 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC

I think the next 6 month will be a golden age for inference. The weights will be available for anyone to download from hugging face which could create a price fall once providers start competing for your business.

Re: Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

#3

Post by a11r » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC

The pricing is 40% of Kimi K3 at the same Model size. It will be interesting to see benchmarks tomorrow and to see how the pricing evolves across this size class.

Re: Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

#4

Post by ChrisArchitect » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:09 AM UTC

Blog post:

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470)

Re: Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

#5

Post by Marvin_RunAI » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 3:16 AM UTC

We're reaching a point where API cost is no longer the bottleneck for agentic workflows

Re: Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

#6

Post by spwa4 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC

Also: Qwen 3.8 27B coming next week!

Also: Qwen 3.8 Max is competitive with CURRENT best models from OpenAI and Anthropic (and Google, and Facebook, insofar they're even still in the race)