Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Claims to Beat GPT-5.6

Alibaba's Qwen team has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts multimodal model targeting autonomous software engineering and enterprise AI tasks. The company claims it outperforms leading proprietary models on key benchmarks. Qwen3.8-Max scored 86.1 on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol Max at 83.2 and Fable 5 at 85.0. It also posted the highest reported score on OpenAI's PaperBench, which tests how well AI agents can reconstruct scientific research from experimental data. Independent verification of these results is still pending.