Buy Once, Use Everywhere: Alibaba Cloud Token Plan Expands to Qwen
Chen Tianqiao's new AI project Apodex just shipped Apodex 1.0 — a deep research agent that uses asynchronous collaboration and an evidence graph to keep itself honest.
Chen Tianqiao's new AI project Apodex just shipped Apodex 1.0 — a deep research agent that uses asynchronous collaboration and an evidence graph to keep itself honest.
Nvidia is shelling out $6 billion to license Poolside's Model Factory and scoop up 109 employees who worked on the Laguna model — while Poolside keeps its independence.
OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing, a zero-retention system that scans for abuse without letting OpenAI employees see prompts or responses. It's a direct challenge to Anthropic's 30-day data policy.
Herdr, a tmux-like tool built for managing coding agents, has joined Y Combinator's F26 batch. The solo-developed open-source project racked up 25K GitHub stars and 340K downloads in four months.
Anthropic released a policy paper calling China's model distillation a "systematic industrial espionage" and urging Congress to criminalize the practice, warning the US advantage is shrinking to just months.
Antigravity adds a leaner Gemini model to cut token waste on simple tasks and resets all account limits for the week.
Tencent open-sources its Hy-MT2 translation models, with a compact 440MB version that can run offline on phones. The models support 33 languages and 5 Chinese dialects, and the Hy Translate app is now available.
In a recent interview, Cognition CEO Scott Wu argues that AI has surpassed humans in logical reasoning, but humans still excel at contextual memory retrieval — a "soft context" that AI cannot yet replicate.
Alibaba Cloud's new Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro model combines text-to-image generation and editing into one, with improved multilingual text rendering and up to 2K resolution output.
Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform introduces a flat-rate monthly subscription for developers, offering access to multiple Chinese AI models for coding and image generation, starting at about $28 per seat.