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Alibaba previews Qwen4-Max without benchmarks, pricing or open weights

According to a post on X by @AlibabaGroup, Alibaba has put its new flagship model, Qwen4-Max, into preview on its Token Plan and in Qwen Chat, QwenWork, Qoder and Qwen Studio. The model is pitched for coding and agentic work. At launch, the source says, Alibaba did not publish benchmarks, parameter count, context length, price or open weights. The same source also reports that Google's Gemini 4 Carbon topped the Extended NYT Connections benchmark.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-11T03:15:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-11T06:22:59+00:00
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According to a post on X by @AlibabaGroup, Alibaba has put its new flagship model, Qwen4-Max, into preview on its Token Plan and in Qwen Chat, QwenWork, Qoder and Qwen Studio. The model is pitched for coding and agentic work. At launch, the source says, Alibaba did not publish benchmarks, parameter count, context length, price or open weights. The same source also reports that Google's Gemini 4 Carbon topped the Extended NYT Connections benchmark.

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Alibaba’s new flagship is in preview on its Token Plan and in Qwen Chat, QwenWork, Qoder and Qwen Studio, pitched for coding and agentic work, but it launched with no benchmarks, parameter count, context length, price or open weights; it was the most-shared story across the AI Community lists. Meanwhile Google’s...

For open-source LLM developers, the missing open weights mean Qwen4-Max cannot yet be self-hosted or inspected based on the information given. Teams evaluating coding and agent tools also have no published benchmarks, pricing or context length to compare it against. Watch for whether Alibaba later releases weights, benchmark results or pricing.

Signal Strength 95% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 46 Category OPEN SOURCE Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 51 Practical Impact Score 26 Novelty Interest Score 80 Consequence Score 34 Curiosity Score 16 Shareability Score 58

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