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QwenWork went to public beta August 3, folding Qoderwork, Mulerun and Wukong into one platform available via web and a desktop client with direct local-machine access, soon embedded in DingTalk's 20 million-plus enterprises. Pricing is subscription plus credits across two editions, with four selectable model tiers (Economy, Basic, Advanced, Flagship) so buyers pay by task complexity rather than by seat. Turning model choice into the price lever is a genuinely different answer than per-token or per-resolution, and given DingTalk's distribution it may end up being the one that sets buyer expectations in that market.
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A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
The Hugging Face page is marked "Upcoming release" with no model card, license, architecture details, context length or benchmarks, after Alibaba promised both Qwen3.8-Max and the 27B weights for the week of August 10. A ModelScope countdown pointed at August 15. Unsloth signa...
Staged on ModelScope for 23:00 Beijing time August 26, it's roughly 125B parameters plus a separate N-gram embedding table of about 51B, activating 6B per token, with GDN gated-delta hybrid layers and Qwen Sparse Attention. Alibaba frames it as a technology preview of the Qwen...
Somebody diffed the configs. Zero architectural changes. Same 64 layers, same 5,120 hidden dimension, same hybrid Gated DeltaNet → FFN / Gated Attention → FFN block structure as Qwen3.6-27B. The r/LocalLLaMA post showing this hit 945 upvotes and 157 comments, and Hugging Face...
Launched August 8 as the new Quality Mode at grok.com/imagine and in the Grok mobile apps, pitching precision editing, crisp text rendering, and improved factuality, with API access promised but not shipped (The Decoder). On the August 7 Arena leaderboards the faster "low" var...
Alibaba's model was reported best overall on Artificial Analysis' Agentic Index, drawing 540 points on HN. Readers watching the page saw Qwen at 55.4 vs Opus Max at 55.3, then on reload Opus Max at 59.2 vs Qwen at 58.4. George from Artificial Analysis replied in-thread that th...
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