Timeline
Google booked Intel to package 3M+ TPUs in 2028
Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26B-parameter open-weight diffusion text model, under Apache 2.0 license.
Released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model for real-time translation
Google finalized the acquisition of energy developer Intersect months before the Meitner site project was announced.
Google commits $11B/year to SpaceX for compute at xAI data centers
Published paper on Titan architecture surpassing Transformers on long-context tasks
Alibaba and Nanjing University published paper claiming 9.36X speedup for million-token prefill
Launched first external partnership for Qwen AI app with China Eastern Airlines for flight booking integration
Released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B parameter model that surpasses its previous 397B MoE model on coding benchmarks.
Researchers developed DCW (Diffusion Correction in Wavelet domain), a method to fix SNR-t misalignment bias in diffusion models, improving performance for models like FLUX and EDM.
Ecosystem
Alibaba
Evidence (6 articles)
Atomic Chat Integrates Google TurboQuant for Local Qwen3.5-9B, Claims 3x Speed Boost on M4 MacBook Air
Mar 27, 2026Time's First AI A-List: Alibaba, ByteDance, Zhipu AI Make Cut
Apr 29, 2026Alibaba's ABot Models Top Embodied AI Benchmarks, Beat Google & NVIDIA
Apr 15, 2026Alibaba Paper Shows AI Moving Beyond Text, Echoing Pichai's Warnings
Apr 9, 2026Brain Drain at Alibaba's Qwen Signals Shifting AI Power Dynamics in China
Mar 4, 2026Alibaba's AI Shakeup: Qwen Leader Departs as DeepMind Veteran Takes Key Role
Mar 5, 2026