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 launched Wan3.0 on August 24, a video generation API that accepts documents (PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, MD, and webpage URLs) and up to 20 multimodal assets per request, producing 30-second 1080…
Alibaba's Wan3.0 video generation model is now available in beta, producing videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, PDFs, web pages, and PowerPoint files, doubling the length of its predecesso…
A developer on maternity leave participated in over ten hackathons, building QuoteX, an AI agent for cross-border commerce, for the Global AI Hackathon with Qwen Cloud. The agent uses Qwen to understa…
Alibaba released the open-source Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model weights on August 12, a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with about 95 billion active parameters per token, making it the…
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 95 billion active parameters per token, requires roughly 4.8 terabytes of memory at FP16/BF16 for weights alone, making local …
A developer built Nexus AI, a 13-agent marketing society on Qwen Cloud, where specialized agents like Social Manager and Brand Guardian independently review each other's work. The project revealed cri…
A developer built Synapse, an AI memory agent with intentional forgetting, for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud. The system uses decay math, contradiction detection, and consolidation to…
A solo developer built DiversiFi, a treasury management agent with persistent memory, for the Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon. The project uses Alibaba Cloud's DashScope for LLM consolidation, Tablesto…
Qwen Cloud has launched the Token Plan Individual and reduced Team pricing, offering unified access to advanced models including Qwen3.8-Max-Preview for text, vision, speech, and image generation. The…
A developer built Recona, an AI agent that reconciles Paystack payments against open invoices using Qwen, for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud. During testing, Qwen correctly identified …
A developer building Synod, a multi-agent code reviewer for the Qwen Cloud hackathon, added a Semgrep pre-filter in front of the security agent to improve consistency. Benchmarking showed that the det…
A developer migrated an AI application from Gemini and Google Cloud to Qwen and Alibaba Cloud for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud. The project, CloudPort Agent, documents migration trap…
A developer has created Orvix, an open-source self-organizing AI engineering company that assembles specialist agents for each mission instead of relying on a single AI. Orvix runs on Alibaba Cloud EC…
A developer built NeuroScale Autopilot, a five-agent Kubernetes incident-response system for the Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon, that prioritizes safety over speed by verifying fixes before execution.…
A developer built FailureDNA, a persistent memory system for incident-response agents that prevents them from repeating known failures or blindly reusing stale fixes. The system uses a deterministic v…
A carpenter built JING, a multi-agent AI system for blue-collar workers, using Qwen Cloud. The system comprises eight specialized agents that handle administrative tasks like budgeting, expense tracki…
Alibaba released HappyHorse 1.1, an upgraded video generation model with improved motion dynamics, subject consistency, and audio generation, and launched the HorsePower AI Video Competition with Huaj…
A developer building a memory agent for the Global AI Hackathon Series discovered that implementing effective forgetting is harder than expected. The agent, built with Qwen Cloud, FastAPI, Neon Postgr…