Alibaba Group Holding has released its biggest-ever AI model, claiming performance on a par with global leader Anthropic in the latest Chinese breakthrough to challenge US rivals.The new Qwen3.8-Max is built on 2.4 trillion parameters and ranks higher on several benchmarks than the headline-grabbing Kimi K3 from Moonshot that was recently unveiled.Alibaba shared results showing it delivered comparable or sometimes better scores than Anthropic’s Fable 5, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence model that was temporarily put under export controls by the US due to its advanced capabilities. The debut comes days after Moonshot’s Kimi sent ripples through stock markets and Silicon Valley…