Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

	Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork(qwen.ai)
	653 points by ai2027 10 hours ago \| 327 comments
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	HN Discussion: ↑Excitement about upcoming open-weight release improving on already strong local models •Skepticism about AI companies having a moat given easy model switching ~Desire for smaller single-language specialized coding models instead of multilingual ones ↑Empirical comparison testing showing promising visual/HTML generation results ↑China catching up to US due to openness and infrastructure advantages