After Moonshot’s Kimi K3, China’s Alibaba launches AI model ‘challenging’ Anthropic’s Fable 5

China’s AI boom has just picked up speed as days after startup Moonshot AI rocked the tech world with its Kimi K3 system, e-commerce giant Alibaba launched a preview of its latest flagship model, Qwen3.8 Max. The tech giant positioned the powerful new model as directly comparable to top global frontier systems, describing its performance as second only to Anthropic’s industry-leading Fable 5. According to a report by Bloomberg, the back-to-back releases from Chinese companies signal that they are rapidly ‘erasing’ the capabilities gap with Silicon Valley.

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