Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929. Image prompt: A cinematic photograph of a modern metallic globe under dramatic spotlight with two elegant birthday candles planted on opposite hemispheres, their flames casting warm red and amber light across continents etched with subtle circuit patterns. The composition uses deep blue shadows and crisp white highlights to trace connection lines between the flames, set against a slate-grey void with high contrast lighting that emphasizes the global celebration.

A SOTA moment to me: Kimi’s OK Computer generate this website in just one shot > It designed a very beautiful site, all images were AI-generated, and when you click, the sidebar expands. > Inside the sidebar, there’s a handwritten letter, it really feels like a website made by a https://x.com/crystalsssup/status/1971133240619757794

Say hi to OK Computer, Kimi’s agent mode 🤖🎸 Your AI product & engineering team, all in one. ✨ From chat → multi-page websites, mobile first designs, editable slides ✨ From up to 1 million rows of data → interactive dashboards ✨ Agency: self-scopes, surveys & designs ✨ https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1971078467560276160

ByteDance unveils SAIL-VL2, a SOTA vision-language foundation model. It achieves comprehensive multimodal understanding and reasoning, outperforming at 2B & 8B scales. https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/1968588429433913714

AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

SAP and OpenAI partner to launch sovereign ‘OpenAI for Germany’ | OpenAI https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-germany/

Flooding the AI Frontier – Chinese models are DOMINATING the open-weight LLM space.
– by Ben https://bturtel.substack.com/p/flooding-the-ai-frontier

Qwen3-VL is finally released and open-sourced, available in both Thinking and Instruct versions! This time, we’ve placed special emphasis on strengthening Visual Agent and Visual Coding, which are crucial steps toward building a true Digital Agent 🚀”” / X https://x.com/huybery/status/1970650821747712209

🎙️ Meet Qwen3-TTS-Flash — the new text-to-speech model that’s redefining voice AI! Demo: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970163551676592430

🔥 Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 IS LIVE — and it’s a GAME CHANGER. 🔥 We didn’t just upgrade it. We rebuilt it for creators, designers, and AI tinkerers who demand pixel-perfect control. ✅ Multi-Image Editing? YES. Drag in “person + product” or “person + scene” — it blends them like https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970189775467647266

🚀 Introducing Qwen3-LiveTranslate-Flash — Real‑Time Multimodal Interpretation — See It, Hear It, Speak It! 🌐 Wide language coverage — Understands 18 languages & 6 dialects, speaks 10 languages. 👁️ Vision‑Enhanced Comprehension — Reads lips, gestures, on‑screen text and https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970565641594867973

🚀 Introducing Qwen3-Omni — the first natively end-to-end omni-modal AI unifying text, image, audio & video in one model — no modality trade-offs! 🏆 SOTA on 22/36 audio & AV benchmarks 🌍 119L text / 19L speech in / 10L speech out ⚡ 211ms latency | 🎧 30-min audio https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970181599133344172

🚀 We’re thrilled to unveil Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series yet! 🔥 The flagship model Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is now open-sourced and available in both Instruct and Thinking versions: ✅ Instruct outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro on key vision https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970594923503391182

🛡️ Meet Qwen3Guard — the Qwen3-based safety moderation model series built for global, real-time AI safety! 🌍 Supports 119 languages and dialects ✅ 3 sizes available: 0.6B, 4B, 8B ⚡ Low-latency, Real-time streaming detection with Qwen3Guard-Stream 📝 Robust Full-context safety https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970510193537753397

Alibaba Qwen officially achieves frontier lab status LFG https://x.com/zephyr_z9/status/1970587657421156622

Alibaba released Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B in Base, Instruct, and Thinking variants under an open-weights Apache 2.0 license, targeting faster long-context inference. The 80-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts design swaps most vanilla attention layers for Gated DeltaNet ones and the https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1970254860416131146

Announcing the open-source release of Qwen3-VL! A powerful vision-language model that can operate GUIs, code https://t.co/ww8tsXcd1u charts from mockups, and recognize “”everything”” from daily life to specialized fields. Highlights: 🔹 Precise event location in videos up to 2 https://x.com/Ali_TongyiLab/status/1970665194390220864

NEW: Qwen 235B A22B Vision Language Model is OUTT! Apache 2.0 licensed and upto 1 Million context length 🤯 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1970589927134937309

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Qwen3 VL might be the best multimodal (vision) model on the planet”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1970591728433283354

Qwen3-Omni is new sota any-to-any model🔥 everything you have to know ⤵️ > a 30B MoE model with 3B active params, comes in three variants: instruct, thinking and captioner 🤩 thinking is for reasoning and captioner is for robust speech generation 🗣️ > it understands everything https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1970444546216444022

Qwen3-Omni Technical Report A unified multimodal model that matches same-size Qwen text-only and vision-only baselines while pushing audio and audio-visual SOTA. Key technical details below: https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1970502225379381662

We’re excited to announce the upgrade of Qwen3-Coder, and the upgraded API `qwen3-coder-plus` is now available on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio with major improvements: 💻 Enhanced terminal task capabilities and better performance on Terminal Bench (w/ Qwen Code / Claude Code) 🏆 https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970582211993927774

🚨 New Models Update! 🔥 Qwen3 coming in hot into the Arena with three different models: 🔹Qwen3-VL-235b-a22b-thinking for Text & Vision 🔹Qwen3-VL-235b-a22b-instruct for Text & Vision 🔹Qwen3-Max-2025-9-23 for Text Check out the thread to learn more about them and get https://x.com/arena/status/1970920636957831611

Qwen just released Qwen3Guard-Gen-8B on Hugging Face This new safety moderation model offers three-tiered severity classification and multilingual support for AI content. https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/1970504452466413639

Wow. Qwen Image Edit now has native support for ControlNet (depth maps, edge maps, keypoint maps etc)”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1970193454505541755

Weaviate is ISO 27001 compliant! 🎉 But what does that actually mean for you? ISO 27001:2022 is the international standard for information security management systems. It requires organizations to systematically manage information security risks through continuous monitoring, https://x.com/weaviate_io/status/1970912361381843104

Kimi Infra team dropped K2 Vendor Verifier > You can visually see the difference in tool call accuracy across providers on OpenRouter. https://x.com/crystalsssup/status/1971158566343184511

LIMI: Less Is More for Agency • Argues agentic AI doesn’t need more data, just better data • 78 curated demos → 73.5% on AgencyBench (beats models trained on 10k samples) • Outperforms SOTA (Kimi-K2: 24.1%, DeepSeek: 11.9%, Qwen3: 27.5%, GLM-4.5: 45.1%) • Establishes Agency https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1970328242688246160

China’s Alibaba just dropped a Python framework for building multi-agent apps. AgentScope lets you build AI agents visually with MCP tools, memory, rag, and reasoning capabilities. Works with any LLM and supports real-time steering. 100% Opensource. https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1967274908742025356

Today, we’re officially launching Wan2.5-Preview! It’s set to reshape the future of visual generation with a new architecture and powerful features. • Architectural Features: Native Multimodality, Deep Alignment ∘ Native Multimodal Architecture: Adopts a new, unified framework”” / X https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/1970697244740591917

China’s Alibaba just dropped an opensource 30B agentic LLM that outperforms Claude 4 Sonnet, DeepSeek v3.1, Kimi k2 on a range of agentic search benchmarks. Only 3B parameters are activated per token. 100% open-source. https://x.com/unwind_ai_/status/1969053988143477186

🚀 DeepSeek-V3.1 → DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus The latest update builds on V3.1’s strengths while addressing key user feedback. ✨ What’s improved? 🌐 Language consistency: fewer CN/EN mix-ups & no more random chars. 🤖 Agent upgrades: stronger Code Agent & Search Agent performance.”” / X https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1970117808035074215

Congrats to @deepseek_ai ! DeepSeek-R1 was published in Nature yesterday as the cover article, and vLLM is proud to have supported its RL training and inference🥰 https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1968506474709270844

Finetune DeepSeek 🐳 with two Mac Studios + MLX 🚀 We use pipeline parallelism to split the full 671GB model across two devices connected by a single TB5 cable. LoRA reduces the number of parameters to train from 671 billion down to 37 million, reducing the memory overhead from https://x.com/MattBeton/status/1968739407260742069

Nature Portfolio also addressed this on Zhihu: Publishing this paper is itself a significant milestone👏 🤔 DeepSeek-R1 learns step-by-step reasoning with minimal human help: • Reinforcement learning: correct answers get rewards, mistakes penalized • Learns to self-verify & https://x.com/ZhihuFrontier/status/1968603082167828494

Pro Tip💡Fast and simple way to deploy DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus with vLLM ⚡️ Run it with: vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus -tp 8 -dcp 8 (as simple as appending -dcp 8 after -tp 8) Thanks to the @Kimi_Moonshot team, vLLM 0.10.2 adds Decode Context Parallel (DCP) https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1970814441718755685

PSA: you can run the new DeepSeek v3.1 Terminus on a single M3 Ultra with mlx-lm at very usable speed. 4-bit quant one-shotted space-invaders in HTML/CSS: https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1970151204102750573

🚨 Major milestone for open-source AI: DeepSeek-R1, with Wenfeng Liang as corresponding author, has landed on the cover of Nature! 🔥 It’s the first fully peer-reviewed LLM published in a top academic journal, sparking huge debate in China’s tech community Zhihu. Zhihu mind https://x.com/ZhihuFrontier/status/1968573286696239247

2025云栖大会_云智一体·碳硅共生_阿里云 https://yunqi.aliyun.com/

China has a new frontier lab, and it’s Tongyi (“”all in one””). in case you were wondering why @JustinLin610 was in such a mad dash to ship so many models, including the monster 1T param Qwen-Max, it’s because the Alibaba Cloud conference just happened and they laid out their https://x.com/swyx/status/1970847377058676849

Microsoft invests $30 billion in UK to power AI future – Microsoft On the Issues https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/09/16/microsoft-30-billion-uk-ai-future/

Introducing Magistral Small 1.2 & Magistral Medium 1.2, minor updates to our Magistral 1.1 models! – Multimodality: Now equipped with a vision encoder, these models handle both text and images seamlessly. – Performance Boost: 15% improvements on math and coding benchmarks such https://x.com/MistralAI/status/1968670593412190381

Magistral Medium 1.2 is out Multimodality: Now equipped with a vision encoder, these models handle both text and images seamlessly Performance Boost: 15% improvements on math and coding benchmarks such as AIME 24/25 and LiveCodeBench v5/v6 default in anycoder under Magistral https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1968708201236381858

DeepSeek’s updated V3.1 Terminus ties with gpt-oss-120b (high) as the most intelligent open weights model and offers increased instruction following and long context reasoning capabilities 🧠 Our benchmarking results indicate DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus shows a greater intelligence https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1971114096008495501

Qwen team released two demos along with three models, find all of them in this collection https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1970445595887161817

We have released Qwen3-Max, the most powerful Qwen model to date! By continuously scaling up model size, data, and RL tasks, great things have happened. This time, coding and agent capabilities have also been significantly enhanced—enjoy!”” / X https://x.com/huybery/status/1970649341582024953

We’ve updated the Qwen3-Coder-Plus API, fixing known issues and making further improvements, especially with adaptations for different scaffolds. Looking ahead, we’ll continue exploring how agent systems can leverage RL to push vibe coding even further!”” / X https://x.com/huybery/status/1970652792848293926

.@Alibaba_Qwen shipping velocity is unmatched Avg 3.5 releases per month, or almost 1 release per week And the majority are open-weights models. Image credt @Smol_AI https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1970839682503348623

[23 Sept 2025] Alibaba Yunqi: 7 models released in 4 days (Qwen3-Max, Qwen3-Omni, Qwen3-VL) and $52B roadmap congrats @Alibaba_Qwen ! https://x.com/Smol_AI/status/1970842828512088486

📢 New Model(s) Drop: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct & Thinking are now on Yupp! These latest models are @Alibaba_Qwen’s most powerful vision-language models yet. https://x.com/yupp_ai/status/1970640795259851079

🚀 Qwen3-Max is here—no preview, just power! Qwen Chat: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970599097297183035

🚀 Your Personal AI Travel Designer Is Here! 🍁 Stop wasting hours planning trips. Qwen Chat Travel Planner crafts complete, day-by-day itineraries tailored JUST for you — powered by Amap, Fliggy APIs and Search. ✅ Recommends perfect hotels & transport routes ✅ Builds https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1970554287202935159

🚨 Top 10 Open Model Leaderboard Update New open models have entered the Text Arena, and the top 10 rankings by provider have shifted for September! 🔹Qwen-3-235b-a22b-instruct from @Alibaba_Qwen holds the crown at #1 🏆 🔹Longcat-flash-chat from @Meituan_LongCat makes a strong https://x.com/arena/status/1968705194868535749

ChatGPT – Qwen Aug–sep 2025 Timeline (interactive) https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/68d3972d363881918f24524394a87d87

Four new releases from Qwen https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/qwen/#atom-everything

Just enabled full cudagraphs by default on @vllm_project! This change should offer a huge improvement for low latency workloads on small models and efficient MoEs For Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 on H100 at bs=10 1024/128, I was able to see a speedup of 47% 🔥 https://x.com/mgoin_/status/1970601094142439761

qwen3-coder-plus is now available on Anycoder Enhanced terminal task capabilities and better performance on Terminal Bench (w/ Qwen Code / Claude Code) SWE-Bench performance up to 69.6 Safer code generation available as Qwen3-Coder-Plus-2025-09-23 https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1970595669896503462

Qwen3-Max The Tau bench score is insane”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1970599394337587671

Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B: – instruct – thinking and -captioner https://x.com/scaling01/status/1970182151019659493

So far, Qwen3-Max seems impressive for a non-reasoning model, doing a good job at a lot of my weird tests that even some reasoners struggle with. https://x.com/emollick/status/1970847381966180685

the new Qwen3-Max is now available in anycoder as default as Qwen3-Max-2025-09-23 https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1970618469344235677

Try the new Qwen models in the Arena!”” / X https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1971097727477088717

Qwen (Qwen) https://huggingface.co/Qwen

Inference Providers @huggingface powered by @novita_labs supports Qwen3-VL, the bleeding-edge vision LM 🔥 the model is quite large (22B active 235B total params) so this makes it super easy to try 💚 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1971168938848551021

🚨 New Models Alert: WebDev 💻 GPT-5-Codex and Qwen3-Coder-Plus are both now available on WebDev Arena! In the WebDev Arena, you can test out all the best frontier AI coding models on web development tasks. Vote for your preferred response and see how they stack up on the https://x.com/arena/status/1970962780225507775

A cautiously optimistic result on AI and disinformation. A week before 2024 UK elections 13% of all voters used AI for political topics. A randomized trial found this may be good: using AI led to similar gains in true knowledge as doing web search, regardless of model & prompts. https://x.com/emollick/status/1968770085973008621

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