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Qwen3.8-Max open weights: 4.89 TB, 224 files, one license catch

Alibaba finally opened a Max-class Qwen — and the 2.4T checkpoint downloads at 4.89 TB, three times Kimi K3 for a smaller model, because Qwen shipped BF16 where Moonshot shipped pre-quantized 4-bit.

By Priya NairBackgrind Blog
Qwen3.8-Max open weights: 4.89 TB, 224 files, one license catch

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Originally published by Backgrind Blog on Aug 22, 2026.

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