タグ: Qwen

Qwen 3.8 is no longer a preview with a marketing claim attached to it. Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on August 3, 2026, and this time the model arrived with the numbers it was missing in July: 95 billion active parameters per token out of 2.4 trillion total, a confirmed 1-million-token context window, and API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. That matters because the claim Alibaba led with, that Qwen 3.8 is “second only to Fable 5,” is finally testable. It turns out to be true on one leaderboard and wrong on another, and the gap between those two answers tells you […]

Qwen pricing splits into two very different paths, and most people only need the free one. The Qwen Chat app is completely free with no subscription, while developers pay per token through the API, where rates run from $0.05 per million input tokens on the cheapest model up to $6.00 per million output tokens on the flagship Qwen3.8-Max. That 120x spread between the cheapest and the flagship rate is the single most important thing to understand before you choose a model. This guide breaks down every part of Qwen pricing for 2026, including the free Qwen Chat app, the pay-as-you-go API rates for each model, the input-size tiers that quietly […]

Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max launched on May 20, 2026 at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, and the numbers are loud. It scored 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at launch (good for #5 that week, currently sitting top 10 of 151 measured models), the highest-ranked Chinese AI model on that leaderboard to date. It carries a 1 million-token context window, costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens, and Alibaba’s internal testing reports a 35-hour autonomous coding run that fired 1,158 tool calls and hit a 10× speedup over the standard Triton reference. So is it actually better than GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, or Gemini 3.5? Short answer, on a price-per-intelligence basis, […]

The best free AI for coding in 2026 is three open-weight models you can use without a credit card. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, Kimi K2.6 hits 80.2%, and Qwen 3.6 27B reaches 77.2%, all released between April 20 and April 24, 2026. The paid frontier is still clearly ahead. On the llm-stats SWE-Bench Verified leaderboard, Claude Fable 5 leads at 95.0%, roughly 14 points above the strongest free option. What the free tier buys you is most of the everyday work at none of the cost, in a browser, in your editor, or offline on your own machine. Every model here counts as open source AI, […]

Have you noticed your AI assistant getting… smarter? It’s not just your imagination. The latest AI models (like OpenAI’s o3/o4-mini, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the open-source DeepSeek R1) are moving beyond simple text prediction. They’re starting to “reason”, to think step-by-step, check their own work, and solve complex problems. This is a huge change from the “autocomplete on steroids” we’re used to. But what is a reasoning model? How does it actually “think” differently than a human? And most importantly, how can you use this new power to get better answers in your daily life? What Is Reasoning? Reasoning is the simple act of thinking logically to form a […]