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Shan2026-09-21
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Qwen-Image-2.1: 7B Model Beats 32B FLUX 2 Max on Qwen's Benchmark

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 unifies image generation and editing in a 7B diffusion transformer, scoring 60.28 vs FLUX 2 Max's 55.33 at a quarter the parameters.

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Shan2026-08-26
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: 125B MoE Runs at 6B Active Params, Previews Qwen4

Alibaba's Qwen team releases a 180B-on-disk multimodal MoE that activates only 6B parameters per token, trained at one-ninth the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus.

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Apple Trains Custom AI Model for China with Alibaba
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Shan2026-08-14
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Apple Trains Custom AI Model for China with Alibaba

Apple has trained a proprietary LLM for the Chinese market alongside Alibaba, registered it with China's cyberspace regulator, and is set to launch Apple Intelligence in China within months.

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Shan2026-06-03
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Alibaba Launches Qwen3.7-Plus With Vision, Tool Use, and Agentic Iteration

Qwen3.7-Plus brings image and video understanding, deep reasoning, tool invocation, verification loops, and autonomous iteration to Alibaba's Bailian platform.

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Shan2026-05-28
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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max Breaks Into the Top Five on Code Arena

Alibaba's newest Qwen model has climbed into Code Arena's global top five, beating several OpenAI and Google systems in developer-voted coding battles.

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