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Alibaba launches preview of 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max, says it's comparable to frontier AI models and second only to Fable 5, will make it "open-weight soon" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/a…

PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/prismml-hopes-its-tin…

PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI | TechCrunch
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.

📊 Leads every instruction-following benchmark and nearly all tool-use benchmarks against models up to 4x its size, trailing only #Qwen3_5 9B on BFCLv4 — coding remains the weaker area
🔧 Day-one support for #llamacpp (GGUF),

📊 No model card, license, benchmark table or pay-as-you-go price yet — the "second only to Fable 5" ranking is self-reported
⚠️ The preview is continuously upgraded and may be replaced by a formal model later
🌐 https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8