The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn't a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving developers downloadable weights for a dense multimodal model.But Qwen3.8-27B isn't a garden variety small local model: it includes native image and video understanding, a 262,144-token context window, configurable reasoning and support for coding and agentic workflows — a “compact, deployment-friendly” version of the capabilities developed for its Qwen3.8 generation.That unusually small hardware footprint is a major part of Qwen3.8-27B [...]
Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large lan [...]
Alibaba this week released Qwen3.7-Plus, the latest AI large language model (LLM) in its globally beloved and increasingly expansive Qwen family, boasting more multimodal capabilities and a 60% lower [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while co [...]
The AI industry has fully entered the "agent era," a paradigm where AI models do far more than generate text — they now actively plan, execute, and course-correct complex tasks over days r [...]
Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention.The new flagship ope [...]
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 [...]
Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) wit [...]
Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused prim [...]
Meta today released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run autonomous AI agents directly on consumer hardware — pushing agentic workloads that normally depend on clou [...]