Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primarily on developing and releasing to the world a growing family of powerful and capable Qwen open source language and multimodal AI models, unveiled its newest batch, the Qwen3.5 Small Model Series.

To put this into perspective, these models are on the order of the smallest general purpose models lately shipped by any lab around the world, comparable more to MIT offshoot LiquidAI's LFM2 series, which also have several hundred million or billion parameters, than the estimated trillion parameters (model settings) reportedly used for the flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's Gemini series.

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Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models.

The idea is that the user describes a specific outcome—something like “plan and execute a local digital marketing campaign for my restaurant” or “build me an Android app that helps me do a specific kind of research for my job.” Computer then ideates subtasks and assigns them to multiple agents as needed, running the models Perplexity deems best for those tasks.

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which are available for commercial usage by enterprises and indie developers under the standard open source Apache 2.0 license.

But the big twist with the open source models is that they offer comparably high performance on third-party benchmark tests to similarly-sized proprietary models from major U.S. startups like OpenAI or Anthropic, actually beating OpenAI's GPT-5-mini and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 — the latter model which was just released five months ago. 

And, the Qwen team says it has engineered these models to remain highly accurate even when "quantized," a process that reduces their footprint further by reducing the numbers by which the model's settings are stored from many values to far fewer.

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Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to rip off Claude

Anthropic dropped a bombshell on the artificial intelligence industry Monday, publicly accusing three prominent Chinese AI laboratories — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — of orchestrating coordinated, industrial-scale campaigns to siphon capabilities from its Claude models using tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts.

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