Chinese AI Labs

Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Beat Claude Opus 5 on Code. Its Open Weights Didn't.

Qwen3.8-Max-0902 tops Arena's coding leaderboard at a fraction of Claude Opus 5's price. The open weights Alibaba promised turned out to be a different, stripped-down model.

Tencent Won't Call Its Newest Model 'Hunyuan'

Tencent's new 770B open model closes in on GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3, yet its own materials never once attach the Hunyuan name to it. That's not a branding accident.