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Codex reaches 5 million weekly users, up 400% from start of year
Codex users can now save rate limit resets, starting with one free saved reset for Go, Plus, Pro, and Business tiers.
OpenAI acquired cloud startup Ona to support AI agent infrastructure
OpenAI closed a $6.6B round at a $157B valuation
OpenAI closed a $6.6B funding round at a $157B valuation
Coatue predicts imminent AI-driven IPO wave involving OpenAI
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.
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Evidence (15 articles)
Alibaba Launches Qwen3.6-Plus with 1M-Token Context, Targeting AI Agent and Coding Workloads
Apr 3, 2026Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 Series Redefines AI Efficiency: Smaller Models, Smarter Performance
Feb 26, 2026Alibaba Cloud's $3 Coding Plan Disrupts AI Development Market
Mar 4, 2026AI Weekly: GPT-6 Rumors, DeepSeek V4 on Huawei, Anthropic Models, Qwen 3.6-Plus
Apr 5, 2026Time's First AI A-List: Alibaba, ByteDance, Zhipu AI Make Cut
Apr 29, 2026Qwen 3.6 Released: Free, Open-Weights Model for Local AI Coding
Apr 17, 2026Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview Launches on OpenRouter with Free 1M Token Context, Disrupting API Pricing
Mar 30, 2026Alibaba Makes Qwen 3.6 Plus API-Only, Shifts Frontier Model to Paid Access
Apr 19, 2026+ 7 more articles