Qwen 3.8 Max promised open weights. Where are they?

Qwen 3.8 Max launched on 3 August 2026 as an API-only model at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with weights promised the following week.

A check of Hugging Face's public model API on 7 August 2026 found no official Qwen3.8 repository, and Alibaba has still not named a license.

Even when the weights land, the 2.4T flagship is far beyond consumer hardware, so the unreleased 27B model is the one most developers should watch.

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