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Qwen did not take the top agentic spot from Claude, but it got within one point News
Artificial Analysis's Agentic Index currently places Claude Opus 5 at maximum effort first with 59, and Qwen3.8 Max tied for second at 58, contradicting posts describing Alibaba's model as the outright leader.
Qwen3.8-Max Shipped as a Paid API, Not as Open Weights News
Alibaba put Qwen3.8-Max live as a hosted API at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, a fifth cheaper than the model it replaces, while the open weights it promised for Max and a 27B sibling have not shipped.
Alibaba Ships Qwen3.6 as Open Weights, Betting on Efficiency Over Size News
Alibaba released its Qwen3.6 line under Apache 2.0, led by a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates only about 3 billion parameters per token and targets agentic coding.
Alibaba's Qwen3Guard flags unsafe AI output token-by-token as it's being generated News
Alibaba released Qwen3Guard, its first open safety-guardrail model, whose streaming variant classifies an AI response for safety as each token is generated rather than after the fact -- and adds a 'Controversial' tier between Safe and Unsafe that apps can tune stricter or looser.
An AI Agent Screened 2.4 Million Crystals and Found Four New Superconductors News
An AI system called ElementsClaw screened 2.4 million candidate crystal structures and flagged four new materials that a lab has since synthesized and confirmed are genuine superconductors.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the biggest 'copy Claude' campaign yet News
Anthropic told U.S. senators that Alibaba's Qwen team quietly milked Claude for its best skills. Alibaba says nothing back, and the whole fight may be as much about price as theft.
AI Agents Are Learning to Build the Worlds They Train In News
Three new open research projects point the same way: instead of only learning what to do, agents are learning to simulate the environment itself, so they can practice in their own imagination.