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2026-09-23-Wed
Alibaba plans a 5- to 10-trillion-parameter model and unveils the Zhenwu V900 chip
▪ Ten trillion parameters is the target for outsiders; a 500,000-card cluster is the premise that makes it real, and Alibaba bound the two together.
Liang Wenfeng tells investors DeepSeek is training a 2-trillion-parameter model and eyeing 8 trillion
▪ The lab famous for saving compute is now quoting trillions of parameters; Chinese model competition has switched its unit from efficiency to scale.
Tencent releases Hy Image 3.5 Preview, self-rated on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro
▪ When quality gaps take internal ratings to detect, image models are competing on which one gets embedded in more workflows.
2026-09-21-Mon
DAMO Academy open-sources RADAR, reading abdominal CT for about 150 conditions, published in Science
▪ Beating 23 of 26 radiologists while barring commercial use — this release gave away the capability and kept the channel.
Alibaba open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1: 7B parameters, native transparency and ten reference images
▪ 7B parameters, native transparency and ten-image input on one consumer GPU — closed image APIs face real pricing pressure for the first time.
SemiAnalysis begins migrating off Hugging Face after the Nvidia acquisition, toward ModelScope
▪ The ink on the acquisition is barely dry and the first user is already moving out — an openness pledge is redeemed in retention.
2026-09-11-Fri
Alibaba Reportedly Leads $300 Million UniPat AI Round as Model Testing Enters Procurement
▪ As model supply expands, enterprises need more than another leaderboard—they need continuous evaluation connected to procurement and deployment.