Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention. The new flagship open-weight model — Qwen3.5-397B-A17B — packs 397 billion total parameters but activates only 17 billion per token. It is claiming benchmark wins…

Read More

OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity near approval to host AI directly for the U.S. government (exclusive)

The shift would let them bypass partners like Palantir and Microsoft and work with the federal government directly. Three AI companies—OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity—are on the verge of receiving approval to sell their technology, hosted on their own cloud systems, directly to the U.S. government, a person familiar with the matter tells Fast Company. That…

Read More

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership

As India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments stack, automating settlement and invoicing workflows in a move the companies say could help accelerate AI-led commerce in India. The partnership will see Pine Labs embed OpenAI’s application…

Read More

Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be ‘useful’

Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a high-profile jury trial over social media addiction. In an appearance that was described by NBC News as “combative,” the Facebook founder reportedly said that Meta’s goal was to make Instagram “useful” not increase the time users are spending in the app. On the stand, Zuckerberg was questioned…

Read More
Back To Top