Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled its high-performance model, 'Kimi K3,' prompting Alibaba to enter the competition with its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model.
According to the South China Morning Post on July 20, Alibaba introduced the 'QWON 3.8 Max Preview,' which boasts 24 trillion parameters, a key factor influencing AI performance.
Alibaba claims that 'QWON 3.8 is one of the most powerful AI models currently available,' asserting it has performance levels second only to Anthropic's 'Claude Paeable 5.' However, independent comprehensive evaluation results to support this claim have yet to be released.
This announcement follows Moonshot AI's introduction of 'Kimi K3' on July 17, which features 28 trillion parameters. Kimi K3 supports image understanding and can process up to 1 million tokens of information at once.
In independent performance evaluations, Kimi K3 closely trails the top AI models in the U.S. It scored 57 points on the intelligence index from AI model evaluation firm Artificial Analysis, ranking just behind Anthropic's Claude Paeable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol.
Alibaba plans to release QWON 3.8 in an open-weight format, allowing developers to access the model's learned weights for direct use or modification to suit specific purposes.
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