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Just tested Qwen3.8-Max-Preview on my benchmark. It got absolutely cooked. Not Fable 5 level. Not even remotely close. It doesn't come close to GPT-5.6 or Opus 4.8 Max either. Honestly, marketing it at that level feels incredibly misleading. I wasted my time and money testing this. Qwen, refund me.

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