Alibaba just launched Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight multimodal MoE model with a 125B backbone that activates just 6B parameters per token. It handles 262K native context, previews the upcoming Qwen4 architecture, and cuts API input costs to $0.16 per million tokens while matching heavyweights in coding benchmarks. Weights are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Alibaba Cloud just launched Wan3.0, extending single-pass video generation to 30 seconds. For the first time, the model can ingest office files like PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets alongside text and images to produce narrative videos. It also sharpens facial fidelity and adds built-in video editing, with API pricing starting at $0.05 per second.
Alibaba just launched Qwen3.8-Max, its most powerful flagship multimodal model featuring 2.4 trillion total parameters while activating just 95 billion via sparse MoE. It supports a 1M token context window and ranks second in Vision Arena. The model is accessible via API on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, with weights releasing next week.
Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a new proprietary reasoning model built around advanced test-time scaling and autonomous tool use. Paired with web search, it notched a 49.8 on Humanity's Last Exam, beating both Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2.
Z.ai just partnered with Alibaba Cloud to roll out a free general-purpose AI agent across Android, iOS, and the web. The assistant handles everyday errands like ordering food and booking reservations directly on your device, powered by Alibaba Cloud's deployment platform.
Alibaba Cloud just released over 100 open-source Qwen 2.5 models, with sizes ranging from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters and sharper math and coding skills. The company also unveiled a new text-to-video AI model under its Tongyi Wanxiang family, alongside an upgraded Qwen2-VL vision model. It marks one of the biggest open-source AI drops from a major tech giant to date.
Kai-Fu Lee’s new startup 01.AI just released Yi-34B, an open-source bilingual language model that surged to the top of Hugging Face's base LLM rankings ahead of Meta's LLaMA 2. The company recently hit a $1 billion valuation backed by Alibaba Cloud, with Lee noting they have stockpiled enough AI chips to last at least a year to fuel application development.
Alibaba just unveiled Tongyi Qianwen, its bilingual large language model designed to compete directly with ChatGPT. The company plans to roll out the AI across its entire product lineup, starting with workplace tool DingTalk and smart speaker Tmall Genie. Enterprise clients and developers can also apply for beta access on Alibaba Cloud to fine-tune custom models.
