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The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T
Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each claim links to its source. The post The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks
Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement learning fine-tune of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash, released on Hugging Face under the MIT license. Is it deployable? Yes, the MIT weights serve on vLLM, SGLang or Transformers, but BF16 needs roughly 640 GB of GPU memory. […] The post Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks appeared first on Ma
GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job
Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents. The post GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy
Google Research has unveiled a federated learning system that moves gradient computation from phones into attested server-side TEEs. Access policies are published to Sigstore's Rekor log and the binaries are reproducibly buildable, so central differential privacy can be checked externally. Gboard already uses it for English and Japanese next-word prediction. The post Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy appeared fir
Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3.46B parameters per token. It has a 1M-token context and per-request reasoning effort, and its Apache 2.0 FP8 weights run on a single B200 or H200. The post Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost.
DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to Its Open-Source Agent Harness
DeepSeek has released official macOS and Windows desktop apps for DeepSeek Harness v0.2, its MIT-licensed agent harness. The preview adds a plugin manager, file and code-change review, and scheduled Automation Tasks. It also supports non-DeepSeek models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints. The post DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Brings Official Desktop Apps to Its Open-Source Agent Harness appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Inside NVIDIA’s IsaacTeleop: From Hand and Controller Tracking to Robot Actions with the Graph-Based Retargeting Engine
Learn how NVIDIA IsaacTeleop turns XR hand tracking and motion controller input into robot commands using a pure Python retargeting engine and NumPy. The post Inside NVIDIA’s IsaacTeleop: From Hand and Controller Tracking to Robot Actions with the Graph-Based Retargeting Engine appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.