Alibaba launched Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI agent that outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 4.8 by 12–14 percentage points on mobile device control, scoring 82.1% on MobileWorld versus 70.1% and 67.5% re…
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 95 billion active parameters, has closed the general reasoning gap with US frontier labs, scoring 92.6 on GPQA Diamond…
A user on r/LocalLLaMA predicts that Alibaba's Qwen family will release a leaner, more usable sibling model within roughly two months, following a pattern observed in 2025 where heavy reasoning models…
Nearly 100 data centers have been opened or begun construction in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, since 2016, with Chinese companies pledging projects totaling 12.5 gigawatts of capacity, over 70 percent ann…
Copper hit an all-time record of $14,455 a tonne on August 7, 2026, as an AI-driven building boom collided with a Democratic Republic of Congo export ban on copper and cobalt concentrate, according to…
Alibaba and Traccia have launched competing observability platforms for production AI agent monitoring: Alibaba's AgentSight, an eBPF-based tool requiring no code changes, and Traccia, which offers ru…
Qwen 3.5 4B, a large language model from Alibaba, successfully runs a full agent loop on an iPhone 15 Pro, including tool calling via MCP servers, without server-side processing. The developer tested …
A new benchmark called Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents affect third-party entities, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Moonshot scoring based on illegal activity counts. An…
Tencent and Alibaba reported massive capital expenditures for AI infrastructure, with Tencent's quarterly capex reaching RMB 52.8 billion (up 176% year-over-year) and Alibaba's reaching RMB 67.7 billi…
A Beijing dumpling shop owner, 41-year-old Li Bo, built an AI skill for Jinguyuan that lets customers check menus, get recommendations, and join the queue via personal AI agents, making the shop a sym…
Chinese-developed models now carry more than 60% of traffic on OpenRouter, the neutral routing platform, with Xiaomi's MiMo V2.5 ranking first by token volume in July, while US models' share fell from…
The White House's new National Security Science and Technology Strategy, dated August 2026, names artificial intelligence and autonomy as a critical technology area but omits open-weight AI from its l…
SGLang, the open-source inference project associated with Ying Sheng and Banghua Zhu, published deployment recipes for Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B model, enabling single-GPU serving with NVFP4 quantization …
Alibaba released ANOLISA, an open-source agentic operating system layer for AI Agent workloads, featuring a terminal interface (cosh-ng), token compression (Token-less), observability (AgentSight), an…
Nvidia Corp. on Thursday (Aug 20) denied a report by The Information that it plans to begin shipping a language processing unit (LPU) tailored for Chinese customers by year-end, saying it has no China…
Meta unveiled Muse Glimmer, Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, and startup Ornith dropped Ornith-1.5-35B, a mixture-of-experts model that runs efficiently on consumer hardware, enabling agents to install a…
Alibaba reported a 75% drop in quarterly profit to 10.5 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) for April-June, as capital expenditures on AI infrastructure jumped 75% to 67.7 billion yuan (about $10 billion). Re…
Chinese AI models Kimi K3, Qwen3.8-Max, and GLM-5.3 now rival the best US models on broad benchmarks, shrinking the Western lead to a few frontier areas and prompting investor concerns ahead of Anthro…
Alibaba published the first Max-class Qwen model as downloadable weights on August 12, but under a custom Qwen3.8-Max License with revenue thresholds, not Apache 2.0. The text-only checkpoint, Qwen3.8…
Chinese AI models are closing the gap with U.S. rivals in cost-effectiveness and quality, according to tests where seven Chinese models built a coffee shop website, challenging the dominance of U.S. f…