Qwen 3.8 Max Just Changed AI Agents Forever

Get the Agent OS & Qwen System: https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Want to make money and save time with AI? Join here: https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Video notes + links to the tools 👉 https://www.skool.com/ai-profit-lab-7462/about Get a FREE AI Course + Community + 1,000 AI Agents 👉 https://www.skool.com/ai-seo-with-julian-goldie-1553/about Get our SEO link building book here: https://go.juliangoldie.com/opt-in?utm=julian Qwen 3.8 Max: The First ‘Walkaway Engine’ (Free Now, Open Weights Next Week) Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max on August 3, describing it as a 2.4T-parameter model (95B active) with a 1M-token context window, free to use at chat.qwen.ai and with open weights planned next week alongside Qwen 3.8/27B. The script argues Qwen is a “walkaway engine,” citing Alibaba’s public demos: an autonomous coding project from an empty folder that ran for about 16 days and produced 265 commits, 127 PRs, and 151 issues; a paper-reproduction run that wrote ~7,600 lines of code, ran 33 trainings, and beat a math benchmark by 2.7 points; and a 24-hour competition where it submitted 45 times and beat 87% of 526 human teams. The host reports testing it on 45 GoldyBench tasks versus Claude, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3, notes strengths in OSWorld, PaperBench, and vision, acknowledges slowness and research hallucinations, and explains it can plug into existing agent tools via Anthropic-compatible APIs. 00:00 Qwen 3.8 Max Drops 00:53 Release Specs and Open Weights 01:47 China’s AI Surprise 02:17 Walkaway Engine Explained 02:58 Autonomous Coding Proof 03:52 Research and Competition Wins 05:14 Our GoldyBench Results 07:02 Rankings and Real Strengths 08:43 Free Access and Openness 10:25 Downsides and Best Practices 11:38 System Over Model Mindset 12:24 Plug Into Agent Tools 13:43 Nontechnical Users and Trust 15:55 What To Do This Week 17:21 Bottom Line and Outro