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Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, aiming to rival US frontier labs and domestic rivals; benchmarks and open-source release details follow.

The Verge AI ·7d ago ·◆ 9 sources ▲ TRENDING

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic...

DeepSeek releases V4-Flash 0731 with enhanced agentic capabilities, 304B parameters (167GB on Hugging Face) and pricing at $0.14 per million input / $0.27 per million output; Artificial Analysis ranks it ahead of MiniMax M3.

Simon Willison ·10d ago ·◆ 43 sources ▲ TRENDING

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well...

Amazon invests in new gas-burning power plant in Pecos County, Texas to power West Texas data center, potentially one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, per New York Times

The Verge AI ·2d ago ·◆ 4 sources ▲ TRENDING

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to The New York Times....