In August 2026, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told the company’s Seed AI research team something almost nobody in the industry
Continue readingThe Distillation Wars: Which Chinese AI Labs Actually Train Their Own Models
Alibaba’s Qwen team just shipped Qwen3.8-Max, and it arrives at a strange moment in the AI race. We’re past the
Editor’s note, September 2026: Written at launch in May 2026, when pricing hadn’t been published — that has since changed:
Continue readingQwen3.7-Max: Built for the Agent Era, Not the Chat Era
The open-weight AI landscape has shifted dramatically in the first half of 2026. Three major releases — DeepSeek V4 Pro,
The open-source AI landscape just had one of its most significant weeks in recent memory. DeepSeek dropped DeepSeek-V4 with a
Continue readingThis Week in AI: DeepSeek-V4, Mistral Medium 3.5, NVIDIA Nemotron, and Qwen3.6
Editor’s note (September 11, 2026): This post was fact-checked in September 2026: every architecture and benchmark figure below was verified
Continue readingThe Open-Weight AI Race Heats Up: DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, and Qwen 3.6