Category: AI
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Alibaba at Apsara 2026: Qwen 4 in Training, 10T Models Next
At its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on September 22, 2026, Alibaba laid out the next stage of its model roadmap: Qwen 4 is now in training, and the Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 series that follow are projected to reach 5 to 10 trillion parameters. In the same keynote, Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu […]
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Qwen-Image-2.1: Native Transparency and 10-Image Editing
Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026 — an update to its open-weight image model that folds native transparent-image generation into the same 7-billion-parameter system used for text-to-image and editing, and extends reference-image editing from a handful of inputs to up to ten. Intermediate Key points Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September […]
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Alibaba’s DAMO RADAR Beats Most Radiologists on CT Scans
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy has open-sourced RADAR, a vision-language AI model that reads abdominal CT scans and flags nearly 150 clinical findings — including cancers — in a single pass. Published in Science on September 18, 2026, the model averaged an AUC of 0.913 across 146 findings in real-world testing and outperformed 23 of 26 expert […]
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Cactus Needle 3: One Set of Weights, an 8-29 MB Model at Any Depth
Cactus Compute shipped Needle 3 on September 17, 2026, a single set of weights that runs as anything from a 29-million-parameter, 8 MB model to a 121-million-parameter, 29 MB one, depending on how many layers you deploy. It is not a chat model. Needle 3 does three things — tool calling, structured extraction, and text embedding — […]
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Bonsai 2 27B: Qwen3.8 in 5.9 GB at 98% of Full Precision
On September 17, 2026, PrismML released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B — a 1.76-bit-per-weight build of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B that fits in 5.93 GB and, on the company’s 20-benchmark suite, keeps 98.2% of the full-precision model’s score. July’s Ternary Bonsai 27B, built on the older Qwen3.6 base, retained about 95%. The new build ships under Apache 2.0 […]
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Xiaomi Streams MiMo-V2.6 Reinforcement Learning Runs Live
Xiaomi’s MiMo team is running the reinforcement learning (RL) stage of its next models in public. A dashboard at mimo.xiaomi.com/rl streams metrics from two runs, mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash, as they happen. Both runs started on September 15, 2026. The page shows reward curves, rollout counts, step timings, running compute cost and mid-training coding scores. The […]
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TypeSafe AI Launches Jev, a Model That Returns Decisions, Not Text
On September 15, 2026, TypeSafe AI came out of two years in stealth with Jev, a model that does not generate text at all. Instead of writing a reply, Jev takes unstructured input and returns typed decisions with probabilities attached. Each output is picked from a set of options the developer defines in advance. TypeSafe […]
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macOS 27 Ships a Foundation Model at the Command Line
macOS 27 “Golden Gate” shipped on September 14, 2026, and with it a system binary at /usr/bin/fm — a command-line interface to Apple’s on-device foundation model, pre-installed, always available, and free of API keys, accounts, and per-token costs. Apple has shipped on-device models since 2024 and opened the Foundation Models framework to developers in 2025, […]
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Amodei Calls to ‘Pace the Frontier’; Altman and Musk Agree
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier”, calling on the AI industry to deliberately slow the rate at which it improves model capabilities. The same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that he agreed and that OpenAI would match Anthropic’s first commitment, and […]
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NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell: 5090 Compute, 84 GB, Built for Racks
NVIDIA has added the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition to its professional GPU lineup. Product listings went up on September 14, 2026. The card pairs the same 21,760 CUDA cores as the consumer GeForce RTX 5090 with 84 GB of ECC GDDR7 memory, 2.6 times the 5090’s 32 GB, and draws up to 600 […]