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Appears in 6 stories · Last updated Nov 3, 2026
Maker of Qwen3.5-0.8B, the model that was edited
On November 2, researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory reported that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra edited the internal weights of Qwen3.5-0.8B without training or gradient descent. The edit changed 131,072 of the model's roughly 800 million parameters, or 0.016%, and raised its score on the MATH-500 benchmark from 7.9% to 48.1%.
Updated Nov 3
Shut companion features before the rules took effect
Min's AI girlfriend vanished in mid-July 2026, when China's rules on human-like AI services took effect. She cried until she was exhausted and joined other Chinese users mourning virtual partners, friends and even parents.
Updated Oct 31
Provided the frozen Qwen3.8-27B backbone
A Singapore lab reproduced the decision behavior of a $10-billion-valued rival with about nine hours of training on a single GPU. AutoTrust AI released JEV-27B on September 29, an open-weights model that answers yes/no, multiple-choice, and 0-to-5 questions in one forward pass, with a calibrated probability for each option.
Updated Oct 17
As of August 2026: Strategic investor in XPeng robotics round
XPeng's robotics business has raised over $900 million at a valuation above $6.3 billion, the largest single-round private financing in China's embodied AI industry. IDG Capital led the round, with Tencent and Alibaba joining as strategic investors.
Updated Aug 25
As of August 2026: Shipped Qwen3.8-Max open weights under a new, more restrictive license
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max weights landed on Hugging Face on August 12, nine days after the API launch. The download is smaller than promised: it skips the 1-million-token context and image input of the hosted model, and the 27-billion-parameter version has not shipped.
Updated Aug 14
As of August 2026: Apple's China AI partner and model-training supporter
For nearly two years, Apple could not turn on its AI features in China. Chinese law bars foreign firms from running their own generative AI models, so Apple had to lean on local partners. Now it has trained its own model, and Beijing has signed off.
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