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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 ·3d 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 ·5d 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...

Meta launches Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 with coding-focused updates, including larger training compute for coding tasks and improvements in code generation, debugging, codebase understanding, and developer workflows.

Simon Willison ·19h ago ·◆ 2 sources

Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting...

One-shotting a raccoon heist game using Claude Fable 5

Simon Willison ·23h ago

Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in...