Alibaba

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1. Oct 16, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   BlenderWorld Benchmark from Alibaba
   Alibaba's Qwen team released a new repository on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
2. Oct 14, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
   For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox.
3. Oct 14, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   Mapping the Post-Transformer Architecture Landscape in 2026 [D]
   Went down the rabbit hole to map the different Post-Transformer architectures.
4. Oct 14, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   Asked Alibaba about commercial use of Qwen-Image 2.1 — up to 300k images/month is free. Here's what the agreement says.
   Qwen-Image 2.1 ships under the Qwen Research License ("research or evaluation purposes only"), so many wrote it off for commercial work.
5. Oct 13, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   Horsey challenge | Strata Fork | Qwen 3.8 FN NVFP4
   I seen a post earlier and seen i believe it was a iq3 i think and it was pretty dope so i thought i try out the NVFP4.
6. Oct 12, 2026 · Research paper · 2 sources
   Alibaba Qwen Introduces QwenGyre: Elastic Reinforcement Learning RL for XLong-Horizon Agents
   Alibaba’s Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training.
7. Oct 11, 2026 · Model release · 4 sources
   Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
   Qwen published the model Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Hugging Face.
8. Oct 10, 2026 · Model release · 4 sources
   Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race
   With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space.
9. Oct 9, 2026 · Research paper · 1 source
   Rollout-Time Intervention: Unlocking Agentic Reinforcement Learning Beyond Policy Limits
   We introduce Rollout-Time Intervention (RTI), a technique designed to elicit successful trajectories beyond the policy's intrinsic exploration capacity.
10. Oct 9, 2026 · Model release · 2 sources
    ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0
    ConwayResearch published the model Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0 on Hugging Face.
11. Oct 8, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
    The Epoch Brief - October 8, 2026
    Welcome back to the Epoch Brief.
12. Oct 8, 2026 · Research paper · 1 source
    AdaptLSTM: Efficient Adaptive Online Learning for Cloud Workload Forecasting under Distribution Drift
    Accurate workload forecasting is critical for elastic resource provisioning in web-scale cloud services, where distribution shifts driven by viral content, product launches, and user behavior degrade offline-trained models rapidly.
13. Oct 5, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
    ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)
    ...As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
14. Sep 30, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.18.0: Release 5.18.0
    Nemotron 3 Diarization is an open-weight streaming speaker diarization model designed to determine "who spoke when" in real-world audio.
15. Sep 28, 2026 · Model release · 1 source
    Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
    Holo4 is our new series of agentic models.
16. Sep 9, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.17.0: Release 5.17.0
    Hy4-Preview is a 780B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model that activates 49B parameters per
17. Jul 3, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.13.0: Release v5.13.0
    Kimi K2.5 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that advances practical capabilities in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, proactive autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration.

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