MiniMax's revenue nearly quadrupled to $116.6 million in the first half of 2026, up 283.1% from $30.4 million a year earlier, but its adjusted net loss widened 111.2% to $293 million. The Shanghai-bas…
Alibaba's Qwen organization activated the Qwen3.8-Flash API on QwenCloud on August 26, 2026, pricing it at $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens with a default 1-million-t…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, the first open-weight preview of the Qwen4 architecture, on 2026-08-26, featuring 125B total parameters with only 6B active per token and topping Qwen3.7-Plus-Base…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 125B backbone parameters and 6B active per token, previewing the Qwen4 architecture. The model …
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates 6 of 125 billion parameters per token, claiming one-ninth the training cost of competitors while outperformin…
Frontier reasoning agents from Anthropic, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba failed on interactive 2D mazes, solving only 6 out of 150 runs across 50 mazes, with 45 mazes unsolved by any model. The evaluation, …
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal model with a 125B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts backbone plus 51B n-gram embedding parameters and 6B active parameters per token, which ou…
Alibaba released three new AI models in August 2025, including the flagship Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion total parameters (95 billion active), the lightweight Qwen3.8-27B with 27 billion parameters, …
Open-weight AI models, which allow enterprises to customize and audit models without releasing underlying code or training data, are gaining ground as alternatives to proprietary systems, with Meta's …
MiniMax Group, the Shanghai-based multimodal AI company, reported revenue of $116.6 million for the first half of 2026, a 283.1% increase from $30.4 million in the same period last year, driven by a 7…
Forum users on Level1Techs discuss concerns about Chinese open-weight AI models like Qwen and Kimi, with some arguing that economic pressure from these models could bankrupt Anthropic and OpenAI, whil…
OpenAI unveiled benchmarks for its custom inference ASIC Jalapeño, co-designed with Broadcom, claiming 1.5–1.9x better performance per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency versus Nvidia's GB200/GB300 on …
On August 26, 2026, OpenRouter's anonymous 'stealth/ox-alpha' listing was revealed to be Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash, with MIT-licensed weights published the same day, prompting a re-verification job for tea…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 26 August, a mixture-of-experts model that activates only 6 billion of its 125 billion parameters per token and is billed as an architecture preview …
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Flash model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, supporting text and image inputs with a 1 million token context window and up to 65k output tokens, recommended for coding, tool…
Short-selling volumes for Zhipu AI (Z.AI Co.) and MiniMax Group Inc. hit all-time highs in June 2026, with Zhipu recording 178,900 shares shorted (HK$430 million) and MiniMax 239,700 shares (HK$141 mi…
Multiverse Computing researchers published a method called Quantization-Aware Healing on August 25 that shrank OpenAI's open GPT-OSS model from 120 billion parameters to 60 billion with 4-bit memory, …
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, a fully local version of its agentic Computer platform that runs on Nvidia DGX Spark desktops and Linux machines with Nvidia RTX GPUs, eliminating monthly token …
Alibaba's $10.2 billion share placement was nearly three times oversubscribed, with orders reaching roughly $28 billion, as sovereign wealth funds and long-only institutions took more than 40% of the …
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, a local AI agent that runs open models on desktop hardware, with Nvidia's DGX Spark as a partner platform. The agent runs a post-trained version of Alibaba's Qwe…