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Alibaba Cloud
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Meta
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Est. 2004·Menlo Park, CA
Coverage (30d)
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This Week
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Evidence
1 articles
Team Size
vs67,000

Timeline

Meta2026-04-09

Reported development of free 'Spark' LLM targeting 1B users.

Meta2026-04-08

Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Spark, a natively multimodal reasoning model, after a nine-month infrastructure rebuild.

Meta2026-04-08

Leaked information suggests Meta's upcoming 'Spark' model will be a closed-weight release, breaking from its open-source strategy.

Meta2026-04-05

Suspended collaboration with data-labeling vendor Mercor due to a supply chain security breach.

Meta2026-03-31

Publicly detailed the development and architecture of its Adaptive Ranking Model (ARM) for ads infrastructure.

Meta2026-03-31

Published research paper on Query-only Test-Time Training (QTT) method to fix 'lost-in-the-middle' problem in long-context LLMs

Alibaba Cloud2026-03-04

Launched unified coding subscription plan offering four AI models for $3

Alibaba Cloud2026-03-01

Qwen family captured over 50% of global open-source AI model downloads, reaching nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads on Hugging Face.

Alibaba Cloud2026-02-01

Released Qwen 3.5 flagship model series, positioned as on par with leading US proprietary models.

Alibaba Cloud2024-09-01

Released Qwen 2.5, marking the beginning of a decisive shift away from popular US models like Llama.

Ecosystem

Alibaba Cloud

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Meta

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usesworld models4 src
partneredApple4 src

Evidence (1 articles)

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