Timeline
Alibaba's Qwen team introduced AVA-Encoder, mapping films to editable knowledge graphs with +20.7 reconstruction fidelity.
Announced Qwen 3.8
ByteDance released SwanTale, a unified speech-audio model, on Hugging Face
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5 model
Deployed RecGPT-V3 on Taobao, achieving +3.97% GMV improvement and 52.4% cost reduction
Alibaba released RynnBrain 1.1 on Hugging Face with 2B, 9B, and 122B-A10B MoE models for robot manipulation.
Released Accio Work, autonomous AI agents for supply chain management
Announced Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion parameter open-weight model
ByteDance Seed releases SpectraReward, a training-free reward model for text-to-image generation.
Released iLLaDA, an 8B diffusion language model trained on 12T tokens.
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