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Alibaba has released a preview of Qwen3.8 Max, the latest flagship model from its Qwen AI unit. The company says the model ranks among the strongest systems now available and compares with leading frontier models. Bloomberg News reports that Alibaba describes Qwen3.8 Max as second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5. The Hangzhou based company makes …
Google Vids is expanding from an AI assisted presentation tool into a broader video creation service. The new features let eligible users create a digital avatar based on their own appearance and voice. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that Google Vids creates these personal avatars from an uploaded selfie and voice recording. Users can then …
Anthropic’s coding assistant Claude Code is finding an unexpected audience: people who never write a single line of code. Nolen Jonker writes for XDA Developers that the tool has become their most-used productivity app this year, simply by pointing it at a messy folder of files instead of a codebase. The idea is simple. Jonker …
PrismML introduces Bonsai 27B, a compressed version of Qwen3.6 27B that the company describes as the first model of its size to run entirely on a smartphone. PrismML announces in an official blog post that the new model shrinks a 27 billion parameter system down to a few gigabytes without abandoning its reasoning, tool use, …
A German research consortium has released Soofi S, an open-source language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom’s AI cloud infrastructure in Munich. Jonathan Kemper reports for The Decoder that the 30B model tops benchmarks in both English and German among fully open models, surpassing OLMo 3 32B and Apertus 70B. Efficient by design Soofi S …
Moonshot AI, the Beijing based startup backed by Alibaba, has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model the company calls in an official blog post the world’s first open 3T-class model. The system combines two new architectural components, Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with a 1 million token context window and native vision …
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, expanding its research assistant across the company’s AI ecosystem. Josh Woodward announces the change in an official Google blog post, noting that more than 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations already use the tool to summarize documents, prepare onboarding materials or turn notes into audio and video content. …
Imagine pointing an AI tool at a folder of interview transcripts on your PC and asking for a structured summary. Instead of copying and pasting text into a browser window, you watch as the tool plans the needed steps, analyzes the contents, and writes a new document directly to your hard drive. This is one …
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first major language model under an open source license. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model, called Inkling, targets enterprises that want to run AI on their own servers while keeping costs low and avoiding ideological filtering. …
OpenAI has opened orders for Codex Micro, a limited-edition desktop keypad built to monitor and control AI coding agents. Megan Morrone reports for Axios that the device is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique hardware maker known for customizable keyboards for developers and designers. The small macro pad sits next to a regular keyboard. …