Qwen 3.8-Max: When AI Works for Days Straight
Welcome back to "Learn English with Podcasts"! Sarah, quick question - if you had to build a website, could you finish it in one night?欢迎回到"Learn English with Podcasts"！Sarah，问你个快问快答——如果让你建一个网站，你能一晚上做完吗？
One night? I'd need a week, at least! Why do you ask?一个晚上？我至少需要一周！为什么这么问？
Because there's a new AI model that can work for days without stopping. It's called Qwen 3.8-Max.因为有一个新的 AI 模型可以连续工作好几天不停歇，它叫 Qwen 3.8-Max。
Wait, work for days? Like, it doesn't need breaks?等等，工作好几天？就像它不需要休息？
Exactly! It was given an empty folder and a simple goal: build a project from zero. And it worked by itself for about sixteen days.没错！有人给了它一个空文件夹和简单的目标：从零开始建一个项目。它自己独立工作了大约十六天。
Sixteen days? That sounds like a real employee, not a chatbot!十六天？这听起来像一个真正的员工，而不是聊天机器人！
That's exactly the point. During that time, it wrote over two hundred and sixty commits and opened more than a hundred pull requests - all by itself.这正是关键所在。那段时间里，它自己写了 260 多次提交，开了 100 多个 pull request——全都是自己完成的。
Hold on, I know those terms from software work. So it's really doing real programming, not just answering questions?等等，这些术语我在软件工作里见过。所以它真的在做真正的编程，不只是回答问题？
Right! It plans, writes code, runs tests, finds bugs, and fixes them. Nobody helps it. It just keeps going.对！它做规划、写代码、跑测试、找 bug，然后修复。没有人帮它，它就一直干下去。
That's honestly a little scary. But also kind of cool. What else can it do?说实话这有点吓人，但也有点酷。它还能做什么？
Here's my favorite part - it can run a small business for a whole year. In a test, it managed online shops with real buying and selling.这是我最喜欢的一点——它可以经营一个小生意整整一年。在一项测试里，它管理着有真实买卖的网店。
A whole year of business? What does it have to do every day?一整年的生意？它每天都要做什么？
Everything. Choosing products to sell, talking prices with suppliers, managing the stock, and handling returns.所有事情。选品、和供应商谈价格、管理库存、处理退货。
So it's like playing a giant shopping game, but the money is fake... wait, was the money real?所以这就像玩一个大型购物游戏，但钱是假的……等等，钱是真的吗？
No, it was a simulation. But the result was amazing - it turned one hundred thousand dollars into over four hundred thousand dollars.不，那是模拟的。但结果很惊人——它把十万美元变成了四十多万美元。
Four times the money in a year?! My savings don't grow that fast!一年赚四倍？！我的存款都没涨这么快！
Ha! The interesting thing is why. It learned from experience. When it got a good price from one supplier, it used that skill on similar products too.哈！有趣的是原因。它会从经验中学习。当它从某个供应商拿到好价格，它会把这种技巧用在类似的产品上。
Oh, so it improves as it goes along, like a person getting better at their job.哦，所以它边做边进步，就像一个人越来越熟悉自己的工作。
Exactly. That's called learning from feedback. It's the difference between a new worker and an experienced one.没错。这就叫从反馈中学习。这正是新手员工和经验丰富员工的区别。
You mentioned it builds software. What about really hard problems, like scientific research?你提到了它做软件开发。那真正难的问题呢，比如科学研究？
Fun fact - it reproduced a whole research paper by itself. It wrote seven thousand lines of code and did thirty-three rounds of training.有趣的事实——它自己复现了一整篇研究论文。它写了七千行代码，做了三十三轮训练。
Seven thousand lines of code... and I struggle with my to-do list.七千行代码……而我连待办清单都搞不定。
And after that, it actually came up with a new method that was even better than the paper's original one!而且之后，它还真想出了一种比论文原方法更优的新方法！
Wait, so it reproduced the research AND improved it? That's like a student finishing homework and then writing a better textbook.等等，所以它复现了研究还改进了它？这就像一个学生做完作业，然后写出了一本更好的教材。
I love that example! Let me give you one more - it even designed a real chip, from the first idea to the final design.我喜欢这个例子！再给你一个——它甚至设计了一颗真实的芯片，从最初的想法到最终设计。
A chip? Like the ones inside our phones?芯片？像手机里面的那种吗？
The very same kind! It started with over eight thousand parts and optimized the design down to under seven hundred.就是那种！它从八千多个零件开始，把设计优化到七百以下。
That's like packing for a trip and getting rid of nine tenths of your luggage.这就像旅行打包，然后把九成的行李都扔掉了。
Exactly! Smaller, faster, and better - that's what a great design means.没错！更小、更快、更好——这就是优秀设计的意义。
Okay, I have to ask - is this the biggest, most powerful AI ever?好了，我得问一句——这是不是史上最强大、最强的 AI？
It's the company's most powerful model so far, with trillions of parameters. And here's the fun twist - they're going to open source it next week.这是该公司迄今最强大的模型，参数达到数万亿级别。而且有趣的是——他们下周就要开源它。
Open source? So other people can use it and improve it?开源？所以其他人可以使用和改进它？
Yes! That's what makes this exciting. It's not locked away - developers all over the world can build with it.是的！这正是让人兴奋的地方。它没有被锁起来——全世界开发者都可以用它来构建。
You know what this means for us regular people? Soon, having an AI that can work all night might be as normal as having a washing machine.你知道这对我们普通人意味着什么吗？很快，有一个能熬夜干活的 AI 可能会像有一台洗衣机一样平常。
Hmm, but my washing machine never learned to negotiate with suppliers.嗯，但我的洗衣机可从来没学会跟供应商砍价。
True! But hey, maybe next year it will. Thanks for the update, Mike. What a time to be alive.说得对！不过也许明年它就会了。谢谢你带来这些消息，Mike。活在这个时代真棒。
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