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.
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.
Six of xAI's 12 co-founders have left as Musk restructures the company into four divisions after the $250 billion SpaceX merger.
Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think scored 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2, beating GPT-5.2 (52.9%) and Claude (68.8%). Verified cost: $13.62 per task.
Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation, the second-largest private tech fundraise ever. Claude Code now writes 4% of public GitHub commits.
Anthropic puts $20 million behind a pro-regulation super PAC, setting up a direct clash with OpenAI-backed political groups ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Musk told xAI employees about a moon factory and electromagnetic catapult for AI satellites. Six of twelve co-founders have now left the company.
Runway closed a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation and plans to pivot from AI video generation to building world models that simulate physical reality.
Alphabet is selling a 100-year bond in sterling, joining Oxford, the Wellcome Trust, and EDF. A 28-year-old company now borrows like a sovereign.
OpenAI began testing ads in free-tier ChatGPT less than 24 hours after Anthropic aired Super Bowl parody spots mocking the move. Both companies released frontier coding models the same week.
GPT-5.3-Codex tops coding benchmarks but ships without API access or Windows support. Claude Opus 4.6 counters with agent teams and 1M-token context.
Arm posted record revenue for the fourth straight quarter. Data center royalties doubled. The stock dropped 8% on a $15 million licensing miss. Wall Street is watching the wrong number.
Anthropic's legal plugin triggered a $300 billion software selloff. The real story is margin compression that's been building since 2024.
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