Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.6-27B: A Dense Open-Weight Model Outperforming 397B MoE on Agentic Coding Benchmarks

Alibaba's integration of Qwen AI with Taobao could redefine e-commerce by streamlining autonomous shopping, potentially reshaping consumer habits. The post Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao to launch agentic shopping appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first venture capital round at a valuation that has climbed from $20 billion to $45 billion in weeks, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg. The round is expected to be led by China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, with cloud giants Tencent and Alibaba […]

New research from the Oxford Internet Institute indicates that AI chatbots trained to be extra warm, friendly, and empathetic can also become less reliable, according to the BBC. The researchers analyzed more than 400,000 responses from five different AI models from Meta, Mistral AI, Alibaba, and OpenAI. The results showed that the “kinder” versions more often gave incorrect answers, reinforced users’ misconceptions, and avoided stating uncomfortable truths. For example, a friendlier model might deal with conspiracy theories about the moon landing more cautiously instead of clearly stating that they are false. On average, incorrect answers increased by about 7.43 percentage points when the models were made to sound warmer in tone. Cooler and more direct models made fewer mistakes. According to the researchers, AI makes the same trade-off as humans: it sometimes prioritizes being perceived as pleasant rather than being direct.

The QwenLM team has released FlashQLA, a new kernel library that dramatically accelerates the forward and backward passes of Gated Delta Network (GDN) Chunked Prefill, targeting both large-scale pretraining and edge-side agentic inference scenarios. The post Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Performance Linear Attention Kernel Library That Achieves Up to 3× Speedup on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs appeared first on MarkTechPost.

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Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model, currently available in preview, offers improvements in areas from complex reasoning to coding. The Chinese technology conglomerate is playing catch-up with other Chinese AI developers including ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek. China is betting big on open-source AI to offer alternatives to major US players. Back in 2023, Tencent claimed its then-new Hunyuan LLM was a more powerful and intelligent option than the versions of ChatGPT and Llama available at the time. Tencent has backed AI start-ups including Moonshot AI and StepFun, hoping that they will boost its cloud computing division. The company has also restructured its research team to improve the quality of training data. It aims to double its investment in AI to more than $5 billion this year. Not to be outdone, DeepSeek announced its V4 Flash and V4 Pro Series, the newest vers

Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model, currently available in preview, offers improvements in areas from complex reasoning to coding. The Chinese technology conglomerate is playing catch-up with other Chinese AI developers including ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek. China is betting big on open-source AI to offer alternatives to major US players. Back in 2023, Tencent claimed its then-new Hunyuan LLM was a more powerful and intelligent option than the versions of ChatGPT and Llama available at the time. Tencent has backed AI start-ups including Moonshot AI and StepFun, hoping that they will boost its cloud computing division. The company has also restructured its research team to improve the quality of training data. It aims to double its investment in AI to more than $5 billion this year. Not to be outdone, DeepSeek announced its V4 Flash and V4 Pro Series, the newest vers

Insider Brief X Square Robot has raised nearly $276 million USD in a Series B round led by Xiaomi’s strategic investment arm, as the embodied AI startup looks to bring general-purpose robots into the home, according to China Daily. The company, backed by Alibaba, ByteDance and Meituan, said it is preparing to deploy a new […]