Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company's published benchmarks hold up under broader independent testing, Qwen3.8-Max doesn't merely compete with today's leading proprietary models — it surpasses several of them on some key benchmarks in agentic computing.Most notably, Qwen reports that Qwen3.8-Max scores 86.1 on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark measuring how well ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol Max (83.2) and Fable 5 (85.0), while also posting the highest reported score on Pap