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Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-397B: The 17B-Active Model That Proves We’ve Been Wasting 95% of Our AI Compute

Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-397B-A17B ranks #3 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, challenging Llama’s open-source dominance with a sparse MoE architecture that activates only 17B of its 397B parameters, no chain-of-thought required.

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Alibaba’s Z-Image Model Delivers Power and Speed, But Its Demo Bias Is Hard to Ignore

The Qwen team’s latest vision-language model Z-Image impresses with 6M parameters and consumer GPU compatibility, while raising uncomfortable questions about representation in AI training demos.

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Alibaba’s CosyVoice 3: The ‘Production-Ready’ TTS That Still Needs a User Manual

CosyVoice 3 promises multilingual voice cloning and 150ms latency, but real-world deployment reveals a gap between benchmark scores and actual reliability. Here’s what the benchmarks won’t tell you.

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Qwen’s Gambit: How a Chinese Open-Source Model Captured 20% of OpenRouter Traffic, and What It Means for the LLM Wars

Qwen’s open-source LLM has surged to 20% of OpenRouter traffic while outperforming Claude on key benchmarks. We analyze the data behind its rise, its real-world performance vs. marketing claims, and whether Alibaba’s bet can sustain against OpenAI and Anthropic’s funding firepower.

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