18 August 2026

Alibaba releases laptop AI model days after Meta's announcement

• Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-27B, a model small enough to run on personal laptops, and opened the weights of its most powerful model Qwen3.8 Max for free download.
• Meta announced similar plans last week with its Muse Glimmer models, aiming to compete in the laptop AI space after Chinese companies dominated open-weight AI for two years.

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Reported by CNBC