Beijing. Chinese technology company Alibaba on Monday unveiled its largest and most capable artificial intelligence (AI) model to date, 'Qwen 3.8-Max'.This model is similar in size to the model launched by competitor company Moonshot AI last month.Chinese technology companies, which have a strong hold on open-weight AI models worldwide, are in a race to build powerful systems. They are striving to develop technology that does not incur high operating costs.'Qwen 3.8-Max' has 2.4 trillion parameters. A parameter is a technical indicator that the model uses to learn from data and generate responses. Moonshot's 'Kimi K3' model has 2.8 trillion parameters.A...