Alibaba Previews Qwen 3.8, Claiming It Trails Only Fable 5
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 rattled markets, though no benchmarks back it.
Moonshot AI is the Chinese AI company behind Kimi, a long-context AI assistant and model platform.
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Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 rattled markets, though no benchmarks back it.
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic's Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba-linked operators used about 25,000 fake accounts to extract Claude's capabilities in what it calls its largest known distillation attack.
China plans to limit US investment in domestic AI companies without government approval following scrutiny of a major cross-border deal. The move signals tighter control over sensitive technologies.
Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to extract AI capabilities from Claude, violating terms of service and regional restrictions.
Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi Claw, a cloud-native implementation of the OpenClaw agent framework that runs entirely in a web browser, simplifying deployment of autonomous AI agents.