Qwen 3.8 Max promised open weights. Here is what shipped

Alibaba published the Qwen 3.8 weights on Hugging Face in August: the 27B under Apache 2.0 and the 2.4T-A95B under a custom Qwen3.8-Max license.

The 27B has about 6.8 million downloads versus about 32,500 for the 2.4T, which needs roughly 2.45 TB of weights in FP8.

The Max license is MIT-like but needs a separate deal for model-as-a-service or AI work assistant businesses over $50 million in revenue.

The open 2.4T checkpoint is not the hosted Max product, which adds vision, non-thinking mode, 1M default context and built-in tools.

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