Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by blfr on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:23AM (#48968983)

As much as I dislike 'em, this sounds mean spirited. And Alibaba admits in this very tweet that Fable is next level (it is).

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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by Hamuko on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:37AM (#48969098)

I want as much misfortune as possible to befall OpenAI and Sam Altman after what they did to the memory market.

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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by brap on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:59AM (#48969279)

How dare they buy things

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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by undersuit on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:25PM (#48969485)

But they didn't. The deal to buy 40% of the world's memory never happened after the price increases the news generated.

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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by brap on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:48PM (#48970692)

How dare they not buy things

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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by gunalx on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:35PM (#48971470)

How dare they claim to buy stuff to boost their standing while actually just faking the entire thing.

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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by notnullorvoid on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:58PM (#48970271)

I dislike their practices, but the main motivation for hoping they'll crash is that I think their immense overvaluation posses too much economic risk.

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