Coverage of Qwen official X post: Qwen3.8 launching, open-weight soon; Qwen3.8-Max-Preview live. Notes no independent third-party benchmarks yet; ranking rests on Alibaba internal evals (same pattern as Moonshot Kimi K3 claims). Scale lineage: Qwen3-Max-Preview (Sep 2025) → Qwen 3.6 Max Preview (Apr 2026) → 2.4T. Watch Artificial Analysis / LMArena.