Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible ahead of open-weights release
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Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and the ability to carry out long-horizon agentic tasks.
  • unglueclass23@programming.devEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This looks promising ! I am currently paying 10$ / month for this other service that is basically a front-end for openrouter. Was searching to switch since :

    1. Don’t like the founder and his braindead push for LLM’s.
    2. Everything is hosted in the US.
    3. I have cut back on my LLM usage by a lot, to the point that I don’t think I spend 10$ worth of tokens. GPT 20B , Gemma 4 27B and DeepSeek v4 flash end up being like 90% of my usage and I try to use them sparingly, keep answers, conversations short.

    I do wonder what to do about the frontend? My mentioned service has a pretty good web app with decent UI and it worked on mobile as well without much problems. I actually end up using LLM’s quite often on mobile as I read a lot on it.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      you can self host librechat, or use their hosted front of you don’t want to bother but still prefer to use something open source