2025-03-29
Google's Gemini 2.5, Alibaba's new Qwen, and upgraded DeepSeek V3: This week's AI launches
Each week, Quartz rounds up product launches, updates, and funding news from artificial intelligence-focused startups and companies.
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2025-09-29
DeepSeek's new V3.2-Exp model cuts API pricing in half to less than 3 cents per 1M input tokens
DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability.The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that [...]
2025-10-02
'Western Qwen': IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture
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 [...]
2025-05-20
Google I/O 2025 recap: AI updates, Android XR, Google Beam and everything else announced at the annual keynote
Today is one of the most important days on the tech calendar as Google kicked off its I/O developer event with its annual keynote. As ever, the company had many updates for a wide range of products to [...]
2025-08-19
Alibaba upgrades its Qwen image model with visual and semantic image editing
Alibaba has updated its Qwen image model with new editing tools for both visual and semantic changes. <br /> The article Alibaba upgrades its Qwen image model with visual and semantic image edi [...]
2025-02-06
US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices
Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not [...]
2025-01-27
China’s DeepSeek AI assistant becomes top free iPhone app as US tech stocks take a hit
Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has become the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US and elsewhere, beating out ChatGPT and other rivals. It's powered by the open-source DeepSeek V [...]
2025-07-06
Alibaba's new GPT-4o competitor Qwen VLo is no longer open source
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has introduced Qwen VLo, a multimodal AI model designed to analyze, generate, and edit images.<br /> The article Alibaba's new GPT-4o competitor Qwen VLo is no lo [...]
2025-10-07
Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini 2.5 Computer Use
Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions [...]
2025-02-13
Apple will use Alibaba's generative AI for its iPhones in China
Apple will use Alibaba's generative AI to power artificial intelligence features for iPhones meant for sale in the Chinese market. Joe Tsai, Alibaba Group's Chairman, has confirmed the compa [...]