Developing story
China AI price war
The story so far — 2 entries, AUG 4, 2026 to AUG 7, 2026.
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AUG 4, 2026 · No. 76 · Lead story
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek's V4-Flash open a new front in China's price warMarkTechPost
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AUG 7, 2026 · No. 79
Qwen3.8-Max ties Claude Opus 5 on the Artificial Analysis Agentic IndexAlibaba's open model now scores within a point of the best closed model on agentic tasks, the closest a Chinese lab has come to the top of that board.
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