Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8 Max on July 19, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 2.4 trillion parameters, video understanding, a million-token context window, and a claim: it ranks second only to Fable 5. The part that matters: Alibaba is shipping it open-weight. Soon. That means code, weights, everything. Download it, fine-tune it, run it yourself. We…