Qwen 4 AI model released
The gist
Alibaba's Qwen 4 Max has no date, price or API as of Nov 11, 2026.
Developers waiting on the next Qwen generation still have no confirmed launch.
How it unfolded
- Aug 3, 2026Qwen3.8-Max, flagship of the current Qwen 3.8 generation, launched, with weights published as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B shortly after.
- Aug 26, 2026Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, described as an open-weight preview of the Qwen 4 architecture.
- Sep 22, 2026Alibaba's Apsara announcement said Qwen 4 was in training, with Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 planned at 5 to 10 trillion parameters; Qwen 4 Max was announced at the Yunqi conference as the top of a four-tier family.
Key terms
- open-weight
- Numerical values in a neural network that determine how strongly inputs contribute to its calculations.
- token context
- The maximum number of tokens a large language model can consider at one time when generating an output.
Source: Wikipedia