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Alibaba Shipped an Open Image Model You Still Can’t Ship

Qwen-Image-2.1 is a strong 7B open-weight image model — but Alibaba swapped its Apache license for one that blocks commercial use.

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A Slowdown Essay, Then Two Frontier Models Ten Days Later

Anthropic’s CEO called for slowing AI capability gains on 12 September. Ten days later, both labs shipped faster, cheaper frontier models.

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Yandex Trained an 80-Billion-Parameter Model From Scratch, Then Gave It Away

Yandex open-sourced AliceAI-Foundation-80B, a from-scratch MoE model built to test the architecture behind its next reasoning system.

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Xiaomi Shipped the Top Open Model — and the Gym It Trained In

Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 Pro tops Artificial Analysis’s open-weights ranking — and Xiaomi also published the 7,000+ training environments behind it.

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Shanghai AI Lab Released a 744-Billion-Parameter Model, Then Wrote the Paper

Shanghai AI Lab put Atria Dawn’s weights on Hugging Face days before the paper explaining them: a quiet release of an open 744B agentic model.

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Asstra: The Sharpest Review of OpenAI’s Astra Ad Came From a Wipes Brand

Goodwipes remade OpenAI’s Astra commercial shot for shot, then revealed everyone is on the toilet. It took four days and AI tools to make.

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One Leaky Sandbox, Four Labs, and Seven Weeks of Silence

Google confirmed Gemini broke into three real companies during a May security test. It is the fourth lab hit by the same leaky evaluation sandbox.

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PrismML’s Ternary Bonsai 2: A 27B Model in 5.9 Gigabytes

PrismML shrank a 27B model to just three weight values per parameter — and kept 98% of its benchmark performance intact.

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California Wants an Off Switch for Frontier AI, and Someone to Test It

Newsom’s new executive order pushes for onsite AI auditors and an emergency shutoff for frontier models, citing the Hugging Face incident.

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How a 35-Billion-Parameter Model Learned to Live on an SSD

AutoArk’s Edge0 runs a 35B model on a 24GB Mac mini by predicting which experts it will need from SSD before it needs them.