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Qwen3.8 Max Prime, a higher-throughput variant of Qwen3.8 Max from Alibaba's Qwen team, is listed on OpenRouter as a separate SKU at a higher price point. It accepts text, image, and video input.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models for speech recognition, text-to-speech, and real-time interaction. The company also cut AI audio prices by up to 95 percent.
AntLing released the open-weight Ming-Image-0.1-Design family, including 6B Ming-Image-0.1-Design and Ming-Image-0.1-Design-Layer models, plus two agent skills for UI design and image-to-editable-PPT. Ming-Image-0.1-Design ranks first among open-weight models on Artificial Analysis's UI/UX Design leaderboard.
Alibaba published a blog post announcing Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash. The item links to the Qwen blog page for the release.
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1, a text-to-image and image-editing model, on Hugging Face. The model has about 28,000 downloads and 1,978 likes.
Alibaba published the Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B model on Hugging Face. It is an image-text-to-text model for autonomous driving, motion planning, 3D perception and visual question answering.
Alibaba published the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next image-text-to-text model on Hugging Face. The model card lists transformers and safetensors support, conversational use, eval results, and a custom license.
Alibaba published an FP8 quantized version of Qwen3.8-27B on Hugging Face. The model is image-text-to-text, conversational, and Apache-2.0 licensed.
Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max, a flagship model designed for long-horizon tasks such as reproducing research papers and designing chips autonomously. The team plans to release the weights next week.