Alibaba Releases Qwen 3.5, Claims It Outperforms GPT-5.2 at 60% Lower Cost
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 activates 17 billion of 397 billion parameters per query. The company claims it beats GPT-5.2 on vision benchmarks at 60% lower cost.
OpenClaw creator Steinberger picks OpenAI over Meta. Amazon plans record $200B AI spend as Azure gains faster. Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5.
Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw in Vienna. OpenAI hired him. No European institution even picked up the phone.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI over Meta. The code was never the prize. The adoption graph was.
American AI dominance follows the dollar playbook: offer freely, create dependency, extract. Allies are already building exits.
Meta and OpenAI bid billions for OpenClaw despite 1.5 million leaked API keys. AI value is shifting from models to agents.
Apple drops 5% on FTC warning and Siri delays. MiniMax M2.5 matches Opus at 5% cost. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2.
MiniMax M2.5 scores within 0.6 points of Opus 4.6 at one-twentieth the price. The AI premium business model may not survive.
Apple's worst trading day since April 2025 came after FTC pressure and Siri AI delays exposed cracks in Cook's political and product strategy.
Brave replaced its free Search API tier with $5 monthly credits, enough for ~1,000 queries. Credit cards collected as identity verification are now active billing instruments.
The Stanford team that invented generative agents raised $100 million to build AI simulations of real people. CVS and Wealthfront are already testing Simile's behavioral prediction platform.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads as three safety leaders exit. Musk pitches xAI moon factory while half the co-founders quit. Samsung ships first HBM4
Six of twelve xAI cofounders gone as company burns $1B monthly. Former GitHub CEO raises record $60M seed. Software stocks lose $285B to AI agents.
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