Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

These speed gains are substantial. At 256K context lengths, Qwen 3.5 decodes 19 times faster than Qwen3-Max and 7.2 times ...

Record scratch—Google’s Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like ...

SurrealDB raises $23M to expand AI-native multimodel database

SurrealDB Inc. today revealed that it has raised an additional $23 million in funding for its multimodel artificial intelligence-native database.

Google boosts Gemini 3 Deep Think AI and it’s a huge milestone for 3D printing

Gemini 3 Deep Think is focused on scientific and engineering work, and it's now now available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app. The post Google boosts Gemini 3 Deep Think AI and it’s a ...

Alibaba releases multimodal Qwen3.5 mixture of experts model

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today released an artificial intelligence model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus at some tasks. The new algorithm, Qwen3.5, is available on Hugging ...
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Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5 AI Model With 60% Lower Costs, 8x Throughput

Alibaba launches Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter AI model built for agents, claiming 60% lower costs, 8x throughput, and expanded multimodal capabilities.
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SurrealDB secures $23M and launches SurrealDB 3.0 to address AI agent memory challenges

SurrealDB is expanding its AI-native database platform to support scalable, real-time applications and improve AI agent ...

Netflix's 'America's Next Top Model' docuseries doesn't let Tyra Banks off easy

Netflix's new docuseries unpacks how the hit modeling show made for "good TV" for its creators and devastating consequences for its participants.