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Infra2026-09-23 · source-backed
Staged shifts at 5/25/50/100%, each gated on router_latency, router_error_rate or inflight_requests, driven by tg beta endpoints rollout --canary in together 2.34.0+. The demo Qwen 7B-to-9B swap paused at 10% and still served 6,800 requests with zero failures. A rollout ends COMPLETED or CANCELED, never half-shifted.
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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...
Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
The letter to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, dated June 10 and surfacing publicly this week, frames it as model distillation run against Claude at scale (Anthropic). A related claim pegs it at 28.8 million fraudulent exchanges, though that figure is single-sourced an...
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on April 22. Dense architecture. Open weights. 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified, within 3.7 points of Claude Opus 4.6. On SkillsBench, it scores 48.2% versus its own 397B MoE predecessor's 30.0%. That's a 77% improvement with 14.8x fewer parameters. Let...
Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 today and the numbers are hard to ignore. One trillion parameters total, 32 billion active per token across 384 experts, 256K context window, and native multimodal input. It scores 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro versus GPT-5.4's 57.7 and Claude Opus 4.6's...
The September 11 fine-tuning expansion adds 18 open-weight models (GLM 5.3/5.2/5.1, DeepSeek-V4-Flash variants, Kimi K2.7-Code, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4) plus Expert LoRA, which puts adapters on the experts themselves. On invented-fact recall, expert-inclusive adapters reached 89...
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