Qwen3.8-Max promises open Qwen-Max-class weights, but none are out at launch
At the Qwen3.8-Max announcement, said it would open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model for the first time, but the weights were not released at the time of the announcement
Why it matters
A practice in which the promise to open up a top model and its actual release come apart. It was pointed out at the same time that Kimi K3 had done the same — grounds for recording the announcement date and the weight release date separately when logging open models
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