Alibaba's Qwen team will not release a Qwen Max-tier model designated 3.9 or higher by October 31, 2026. The company will instead keep the spotlight on Qwen3.8-Max, which was broadly released on August 3, 2026 and is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, with the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B open…