Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s famously prolific Qwen Team of AI model researchers and engineers has introduced a major expansion to its Qwen Deep Research tool, which is available as an optional modality the user can activate on the web-based Qwen Chat (a competitor to ChatGPT).The update lets users generate not only comprehensive research reports with well-organized citations, but also interactive web pages and multi-speaker podcasts — all within 1-2 clicks.This functionality is part of a proprietary release, distinct from many of Qwen’s previous open-source model offerings. While the feature relies on the open-source models Qwen3-Coder, Qwen-Image, and Qwen3-TTS to power its core capabilities, the end-to-end experience — including research execution, web deployment, and audi [...]
Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized g [...]
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Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]
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IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost [...]
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