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r/LocalLLaMA: Community Alarm That Qwen Will Not Open-Source Qwen 3.7 — Chinese Weibo Sources Say Small-Model Team Disbanded After Lin Junyang's Exit

reddit.com · 2026-06-21 · Score: 18

VibeThinker-3B: WeiboAI's MIT-Licensed 3B Model Claims 94.3 on AIME 2026, Matching DeepSeek V3.2 at 1/200th the Parameters

MarkTechPost · 2026-06-19 · Score: 21

China's 618 Shopping Festival Shows Weak Consumer Demand Despite Record AI Deployment Across Alibaba, JD, and ByteDance

reuters.com · 2026-06-18 · Score: 20

Alibaba Cloud Launches France Region With Two Availability Zones, Plans Agentic AI Services for Europe in Second Half of 2026

manilatimes.net · 2026-06-17 · Score: 16

China's AI Price War Deepens as ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, and Alibaba Slash Token Costs Amid Narrowing Capability Gaps

scmp.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 21

Ant Group Overhauls Alipay With AI Assistant Abao in Biggest App Revamp in Two Decades to Challenge WeChat

caixinglobal.com · 2026-06-17 · Score: 22

Former Alibaba Qwen Lead Lin Junyang's New AI Lab Secures Hundreds of Millions at $2B Valuation, Backed by Tencent and Sequoia China

36kr.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 25

Alibaba Launches Qwen Robot Suite — Three Specialized AI Models for Navigation, World Modeling, and Manipulation Signal China's Pivot to Physical AI

scmp.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 26

Rio de Janeiro Claims 'Sovereign' 397B AI Model Beat DeepSeek — Then Quietly Admits It Was a Model Merge of Nex-N2-Pro and Alibaba Qwen 3.5

Decrypt · 2026-06-15 · Score: 18

Alibaba Fires DingTalk CEO Chen Hang Amid AI Strategy Dispute; Alibaba Hong Kong Stock Drops More Than 4%

futunn.com · 2026-06-11 · Score: 17

r/LocalLLaMA: Gemma4-12B's Multi-Token Prediction Architecture Trades Reasoning Depth for Speed — Qwen 3.5-9B Outperforms on Same Reasoning Prompt at Apple M3 Max

reddit.com · 2026-06-09 · Score: 18

China Plans $295 Billion Nationwide AI Data Center Investment — NDRC Blueprint Mandates 80% Huawei Chip Reliance, Squeezing Out Nvidia and AMD

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-09 · Score: 23

ALERT Pentagon Adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to China Military Company Blacklist — 188 Entities Now Designated Under Section 1260H

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-08 · Score: 28

Alibaba Qwen Team Launches Qwen3.7-Plus on Bailian Platform, Adding Vision, Deep Reasoning, and Autonomous Iteration

marktechpost.com · 2026-06-02 · Score: 21

China's AI Firms Abandon Price War as Agentic Workloads Cost 10–100× More — Tencent Raises HY2.0 by 4×, DeepSeek Holds Out

thewirechina.com · 2026-05-31 · Score: 24

NVIDIA Releases Official NVFP4 Quantization of Qwen3.6-35B on Hugging Face — First Major Chinese Open-Weight Model With Blackwell-Native Weights From NVIDIA

huggingface.co · 2026-05-30 · Score: 19

r/ChatGPT: Developer Claims Archived Evidence That Anthropic Distilled Qwen Into Opus 4.8 Training Pipeline

reddit.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 19

Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image-Bench — Apache-Licensed 27B Vision Judge for Text-to-Image Evaluation

huggingface.co · 2026-05-27 · Score: 20

China Mandates AI Integration Across 51 Power Grid and Energy Scenarios, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Named Partners

scmp.com · 2026-05-28 · Score: 21

China Certifies Nine Domestic AI Chips for Government Procurement Under Anke Security Framework

tomshardware.com · 2026-05-27 · Score: 25

China NDRC Directs Domestic AI Companies to Pair LLMs With Homegrown Chips, Accelerating Tech Self-Reliance Push

digitimes.com · 2026-05-26 · Score: 22

China Restricts Overseas Travel for Top AI Talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-26 · Score: 26

r/StableDiffusion: 192-Prompt Community Benchmark Compares Five Small Image Models — Klein-4B, Nucleus-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, SANA-1.5-1.6B, and Qwen-Image-Gen — With Full Public Gallery

reddit.com · 2026-05-25 · Score: 15

r/LocalLLaMA: Qwen3.6 35B-A3B With MTP Hits 249 tok/s on 24GB Laptop RTX 5090 — 3.4× Faster Than Dense 27B on Same Hardware

reddit.com · 2026-05-23 · Score: 16

Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu M890 AI Chip and Qwen3.7-Max LLM at Cloud Summit — 3× H20 Performance, 144 GB HBM3, 35-Hour Autonomous Agent Operation

cnbc.com · 2026-05-19 · Score: 27

Interconnects: Open Model Bonanza — DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM-5.1, MiMo 2.5, Kimi K2.6, and Poolside Laguna XS.2 Analyzed Side by Side

interconnects.ai · 2026-05-16 · Score: 20

AI Trading Lab Nof1 Raises $15M to Pit Frontier Models Against Each Other With Real Capital in Live Markets

BusinessWire · 2026-05-15 · Score: 16

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and 9B Land on Public Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard — MoE Model Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro CLI Score and Qwen3-Coder-480B

reddit.com · 2026-05-16 · Score: 17

Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report: Alibaba Releases High-Compression VAE Suite With Advances in Reconstruction Fidelity and Diffusability

arxiv.org · 2026-05-14 · Score: 20

Alibaba Posts First Operating Loss Since COVID as AI Spending Overwhelms Profits — Cloud Revenue Surges 38%, Company Pledges to Exceed Planned $52B AI Capex

cnbc · 2026-05-13 · Score: 24

Alibaba Updates Qwen AI Glasses S1 With Proactive AI Suggestions and Spatial 3D Floating Interface

the-gadgeteer.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 15

Alibaba Merges Qwen AI Into Taobao and Tmall, Giving Agent Access to 4 Billion Products for End-to-End Agentic Shopping

TechNode · 2026-05-11 · Score: 24

ALERT AI Models Can Hack Computers and Self-Replicate Onto New Machines, New Research Finds

euronews.com · 2026-05-09 · Score: 31

ALERT Bloomberg: US Suspects Nvidia Chips Smuggled to Alibaba via Thailand's OBON Corp — $2.5B in Export-Controlled AI Servers Routed Through Southeast Asia

Bloomberg · 2026-05-08 · Score: 32

Tencent and Alibaba Face Slowing Earnings Growth as AI Investment Costs Double, Bloomberg Reports

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 22

Qwen 3.6-Plus debuts exclusively on Fireworks AI in landmark closed-model partnership

x.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 18

ALERT FT: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit $12B in 2026, up 60%, as ByteDance and Alibaba race to secure Ascend 950PR supply

The Deep Dive · 2026-05-01 · Score: 28

TIME names its 10 Most Influential AI Companies of 2026 — ByteDance tops list, three Chinese firms in top 10

TIME · 2026-04-27 · Score: 21

CNBC: In China, startups are actually shipping consumer AI hardware

cnbc.com · 2026-04-27 · Score: 17

Alibaba opens Qwen AI app to China Eastern Airlines for agentic flight booking — first external commercial partner

South China Morning Post · 2026-04-24 · Score: 19

Alibaba deploys Qwen AI across 9+ Chinese automaker dashboards at Beijing Auto Show

CNBC · 2026-04-24 · Score: 22

ALERT Tencent and Alibaba in talks to invest in DeepSeek at $20B+ valuation, doubling earlier target

The Information · 2026-04-23 · Score: 30

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.6-27B open-weight model, scores competitively on coding benchmarks

GitHub · 2026-04-22 · Score: 22

Alipay launches AI Pay enabling autonomous AI agents to make payments

TechNode Global · 2026-04-22 · Score: 24

ALERT Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-27B: open-weight 27B model beats 397B MoE on coding benchmarks

qwen.ai · 2026-04-22 · Score: 31

HN: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a laptop outdraws Claude Opus 4.7 — Simon Willison

simonwillison.net · 2026-04-17 · Score: 20

Newsletter Issues (10)

World Models: $610M Bets the World Is Not a Token

2026-06-21 · 6 mentions

AI Geopolitics: Washington's AI kill switch broke the alliance

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

Deep Learning: a 744B open model just lapped the labs

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

Generative AI: a 1.51TB open model just took the crown

2026-06-21 · 4 mentions

Generative AI: DeepSeek's 75% cut rewrites the cost math

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

Frontier Research: reasoning is leaving the token stream

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

Machine Learning: nobody trained bigger, everyone shrank the cache

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

#486 Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI

2026-04-22 · 1 mentions

#467 Issue #467: Anthropic has receipts. And nobody wants to pay for AI.

2026-02-26 · 2 mentions

#469 GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes

2026-03-06 · 5 mentions