AI
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus for agentic coding with a 1M-token context window, free preview access, and a closed-source strategy that changes how builders should read Qwen.
AI
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 across speech transcription, voice generation, and image generation, turning its OpenAI backup plan into a product stack.
AI
StepFun Step 3.5 Flash activates only 11B parameters inside a 196B MoE model, posts strong math and coding benchmarks, and ships as Apache 2.0 open weights.