--- title: Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit... description: Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model using a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture that activates ~95 billion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub | daily.dev og:description: Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model using a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture that activates ~95 billion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/167taKwGH.png og:image:alt: Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model using a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture that activates ~95 billion parameters per token. The headline demo had the model autonomously build a CLI tool called 'oh-my-cli' over 16 days, producing 265 commits, 127 pull requests, and 151 GitHub issues — all publicly auditable. Other demos include reproducing a research paper's results in five days and optimizing a cryptographic circuit from 8,298 logic gates to 678 over ~500 iterations. The model is available via QwenCloud at $2/$6 per million input/output tokens, with open weights coming to Hugging Face and ModelScope. Benchmarks show it near but below top Anthropic and OpenAI models, and Alibaba's internal results lack independent verification. Key caveats include the impracticality of self-hosting at this scale and open questions about long-context memory in extended autonomous runs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@yaireo** · 0 upvotes > Just saying for those who don't know - [https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/) --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mixture-of-experts](https://daily.dev/tags/mixture-of-experts), [#qwen](https://daily.dev/tags/qwen) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh"},"datePublished":"2026-08-03T19:29:23.640Z","dateModified":"2026-08-05T02:49:45.741Z","description":"Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model using a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture that activates ~95 billion...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b84acde58d971f1347a53980c31809f1?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b84acde58d971f1347a53980c31809f1?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"llm,ai-agents,mixture-of-experts,qwen","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Alibaba’s AI coded for 16 days straight and every commit is on GitHub"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-s-ai-coded-for-16-days-straight-and-every-commit-is-on-github-167takwgh","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Just saying for those who don’t know - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/","datePublished":"2026-08-04T07:05:58.181Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/167taKwGH#c-ZSV3cj8qo","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yair Even Or","url":"https://daily.dev/yaireo","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/845031?v=4"}}]} ```