Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23 vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3 Max 2026 01-23

Qwen · text → text

The snapshot version of the Tongyi Qianwen 3 series Max model is from January 23, 2026. By default, it does not require thinking, but thinking mode can be enabled through the enable_thinking parameter, as detailed in the code example. (After enabling thinking by passing parameters, it becomes: Qwen3-Max-Thinking). This model has a total parameter count exceeding one trillion (1T) and a pre-training data volume of up to 36T Tokens, making it the largest and most powerful reasoning model from Alibaba to date.

Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.