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Alibaba opens Qwen to KFC, Luckin Coffee, and airlines in AI agent battle
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Alibaba opens Qwen to KFC, Luckin Coffee, and airlines in AI agent battle

Alibaba is weaponizing its open-source AI model Qwen to infiltrate China's consumer economy, embedding artificial intelligence agents directly into the ordering systems of KFC, Luckin Coffee, and major airlines in a calculated bid to outflank competitors like ByteDance and dominate how Chinese customers interact with businesses. By making Qwen freely available to some of the country's largest consumer brands, the e-commerce giant is attempting to build an ecosystem locked into its technology before rivals can establish their own standards. The move signals a dramatic shift in how Chinese tech companies compete: not just for users, but for control over the AI layer that sits between companies and their customers.

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Gemma4 QAT + MTP quick TPS numbers [TLDR 1.2-1.8x better]

These last few weeks have been godsend for 24GB (and below) gpu poor peeps. Killer models released (Gemma 4 / Qwen 3.6) Free intelligence via QAT Bonus speed via MTP We're at the tipping point where...

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Qwen 3.5 Narrows the Open-Weights Divide: Why It Matters for Developers Today
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Qwen 3.5 Narrows the Open-Weights Divide: Why It Matters for Developers Today

by iyui — Alibaba has released an open-weight model that rivals, and in some benchmark areas surpasses, leading closed-source frontier models. While…

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Qwen 3.6 27B on DeepSWE

Overview: It scored 2% (1.79% rounded up) It is 18/20th place scoring above Haiku 4.5 and Minimax M2.7 Full benchmark took 70 hours Average time per task 32m Average output tokens per task: 44k...

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I can't wait for all the x250 sample distills of Mythos and GPT-5.6

Just kidding. Are there any distills that actually improve a model's quality? I remember the Qwen R1 8B distill improved the model, but since then, I don't remember ever using a distilled model that...

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Ideogram 4.0: Best Open-Sourced Image Generation AI is here, beats Flux, Qwen-Image
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Ideogram 4.0: Best Open-Sourced Image Generation AI is here, beats Flux, Qwen-Image

by Mehul Gupta — How to use Ideogram 4.0 for free?

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“My Agent is no longer a GoldFish” Explained TMEM for Entry Level Developers
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“My Agent is no longer a GoldFish” Explained TMEM for Entry Level Developers

by Nishchya Verma — Scaling Self-Evolving Agents via Parametric Memory is a paper submitted by researchers at Qwen-Character Team , Alibaba Group and Peking…

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mtmd : add video input support by ngxson · Pull Request #24269 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

Show your videos to Gemma or Qwen today

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Alibaba Opens Qwen To Brands – Aims To Build AI-Powered Commerce Network
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Alibaba Opens Qwen To Brands – Aims To Build AI-Powered Commerce Network

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Qwen 3.6 27B KV cache quant benchmarks: 75 pairs, q8/q6/q5/q4, KVarN, Turbo/TCQ

Full benchmark results and in-depth analysis are available in the articles: KV Cache Quantization Benchmarks for Long Context and KVarN KV Cache: Implementation and Benchmarks. BeeLlama.cpp (my...

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Gemma 4 12B vs Qwen 3.6 27B: Which Open Model Wins in Coding, Translation, and Vision?
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Gemma 4 12B vs Qwen 3.6 27B: Which Open Model Wins in Coding, Translation, and Vision?

by Mehul Gupta — What is the best Mid-Sized LLM?

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Qwen is set to compete with WeChat in the Agent arena.

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BeeLlama v0.3.1 – latest llama.cpp with extras! DFlash, MTP, q6_0 cache, TurboQuant. Single RTX 3090: Qwen 3.6 27B & Gemma 4 31B up to 177.8 tps (4.93x over baseline)

BeeLlama v0.3.0 and v0.3.1 are here! Big architectural update to align the fork with upstream llama.cpp and integrate all its additions like MTP and Gemma 4 12B support, while also updating DFlash to...

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Qwen AI Review: A Closer Look at One of the Fastest-Growing AI Models

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Alibaba forges Token Foundry as it hammers AI ambitions into shape
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Alibaba forges Token Foundry as it hammers AI ambitions into shape

Alibaba consolidates key AI teams under CEO Eddie Wu and appoints Qwen leader Zhou Jingren as chief scientist Alibaba Group Holding on Monday established a new unit called Token Foundry,...

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China is moving beyond super-apps to embrace AI agents that do it all for you
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China is moving beyond super-apps to embrace AI agents that do it all for you

Alibaba’s Qwen and Tencent’s WeChat are pushing China’s app economy toward AI agents that can order food, book travel, shop, pay, and move through services from a chat prompt.The Latest Tech News,...

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Don’t act like y’all ain’t thinking it. I’m just saying the quiet part out loud. /s

Of course I’m thankful for all that Qwen has bequeathed us, but deep down in the darkest pit of our souls, every last one of us are just all sitting here waiting for Qwen to say “Hey Google, hold my...

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Kentucky Fried Chicken and other companies are adopting Alibaba's AI 'Qwen' to fully automate all orders via chat.

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You guys were right - Qwen 3.6 35B IS good...and KV Cache DOES matter.

WARNING: I'm speed typing this, no time to organizea/format, so if short paragraph chunks bother you, just keep it moving. When Qwen 3.6 35B dropped, a lot of people were heaping praises and I...

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qwen ai is a trending topic in artificial intelligence. Best AI News Today aggregates the latest news and developments about qwen ai from over 30 sources including research papers, tech publications, and community discussions.

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As of today, there are 60 recent stories about qwen ai. Recent headlines include: Gemma4 QAT + MTP quick TPS numbers [TLDR 1.2-1.8x better]; mtmd : add video input support by ngxson · Pull Request #24269 · ggml-org/llama.cpp; Alibaba’s Qwen AI Glasses S1 gets proactive AI features and spatial 3D display upgrade. This page is updated every 15 minutes with the latest coverage.

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