Qwen3.8-Max-Preview Review: Second Place, Unproven
Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter preview claims it trails only Claude Fable 5. I tested it for free at chat.qwen.ai and found a capable but slow model with zero benchmarks to back the claim.
Articles Tagged "MoE"
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Claims It Trails Only Claude Fable 5
Alibaba previewed a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model at WAIC and said it ranks second only to Claude Fable 5, without publishing a single benchmark to back the claim.
Qwen3.8-Max-Preview
Alibaba's 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal MoE model claims to trail only Claude Fable 5, but ships with no model card, no benchmark table, and no confirmed pricing.
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8 trillion parameter MoE model that tops LMArena's Frontend Code Arena and nears Claude Fable 5 on intelligence benchmarks, but at roughly triple Kimi K2.6's price and a higher hallucination rate.
Thinking Machines Opens Inkling - and Admits Its Limits
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first open-weight model, Inkling, and published benchmarks showing it losing to closed rivals on most of them.
Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weight model - a 975B-parameter MoE with native text, image, and audio reasoning, released under Apache 2.0 and tuned for customization on the Tinker platform.
Gemini 3 Pro
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 Pro debuted at 1501 Elo on LMArena with 91.9% on GPQA Diamond and a 1M-token context window, before Google retired it for Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Kimi K2.7 Code Review: Open Weights Enter Copilot
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7-Code became the first open-weight model in GitHub Copilot's picker, pairing genuine cost savings with a benchmark story that only Moonshot has verified.
Mistral's Leanstral 1.5 Finds 5 Unknown Bugs Free
Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 scanned 57 repos and found five previously unreported bugs, including a silent integer overflow in a Rust zigzag decoder.
LongCat-2.0 Review: China's Stealth Coder
Meituan's 1.6T open-source coding model secretly topped OpenRouter for two months before revealing itself - and the price-to-performance math is hard to argue with.
LongCat-2.0
Meituan's 1.6T-parameter open-source MoE coding model, trained end-to-end on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs, with native 1M token context and a 59.5 SWE-bench Pro score.
Meituan's LongCat-2.0 Was Topping OpenRouter in Disguise
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T MoE model trained on 50,000 Chinese ASICs that secretly topped OpenRouter under the alias Owl Alpha.
