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Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B: A 9-Billion Parameter Model Beating 120-Billion
Alibaba's new small model series proves that running frontier-class AI on a laptop isn't a distant dream — it's happening now.
Block Just Cut 4,000 Jobs Because of AI. The Numbers Are Staggering.
Jack Dorsey says AI efficiency is driving Block to slash 40% of its workforce. The real story is what comes next.
How AT&T Cut AI Costs by 90% With Small Language Models
AT&T processes 8B tokens daily on specialized small language models, cutting AI costs ~90% without sacrificing capability. How the architecture works.
Perplexity Computer: A $20B Bet on Model Specialization
Perplexity Computer orchestrates 19 models in one agent. Models are specializing, not consolidating — multi-model orchestration, not commodities.
GGML and llama.cpp Join Hugging Face: What It Means for Local AI
GGML creator Georgi Gerganov joins Hugging Face to secure the future of local AI inference. A landmark open-source move.
Nano Banana 2: What Flash-Speed Image Generation with Web Grounding Actually Means
Google's Nano Banana 2 combines Pro-quality image generation with Flash speed and search grounding. What the architecture implies.
OpenAI's Frontier Alliance and GPT-4o Sunset
OpenAI signs multiyear deals with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini for its Frontier AI agent platform, and retires five older models.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Leads 12 of 18 Benchmarks
Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, leads on 12 benchmarks, and doubles reasoning power at no price increase.
Claude Sonnet 4.6: Near-Opus at 1/5 the Cost
Claude Sonnet 4.6 matches Opus 4.6 on key benchmarks while costing 60% less, reshaping the AI price-performance curve.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Multilingual and Open
Qwen 3.5 supports 201 languages, operates autonomously across devices, and ships open-weight under Apache 2.0.
MiniMax M2.5: Frontier Coding for Less
Chinese startup MiniMax matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench while charging roughly one-tenth the price per token.
Seedance 2.0: AI Video Meets Copyright War
Seedance 2.0 debuts at China's Spring Festival Gala, generates Hollywood-quality video from text prompts, and draws a Disney cease-and-desist.