A 27B AI Model Now Fits an iPhone - Apple Is Watching
PrismML compressed a 27B-parameter Qwen model from 54GB to under 4GB using 1-bit and ternary weights, and Apple is evaluating the technology for on-device Siri.
Articles Tagged "Qwen"
Bonsai 27B
Bonsai 27B compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B into 1-bit and ternary weights, shrinking a 54GB model to as little as 3.9GB so it runs on an iPhone.
China Clears Apple Intelligence After Two-Year Wait
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for the local market, but only after Apple agreed to run Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models instead of its own.
Snowflake Arctic-Text2SQL-R1-32B
Snowflake's reasoning-first text-to-SQL model tops the BIRD benchmark at 71.83% execution accuracy, trained with GRPO and a reward that only checks if the SQL runs correctly.
Qwen3.6-Plus
Alibaba's 1M-token flagship agentic coding model posts 78.8% on SWE-bench Verified and undercuts Kimi K2.6 and Claude Opus on price, but ships with no weights and a mandatory reasoning tax.
Hugging Face CEO Says Enterprises Are Done Renting AI
Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.
Anthropic Caught Qwen Running 25,000 Fake Claude Accounts
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 25,000 fraudulent accounts that extracted 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest AI distillation attack on record.
Anthropic Tells Senate Alibaba Stole Claude's Capabilities
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.
Alibaba's Qwen-Robot Suite Targets Physical AI Work
Alibaba launches three open-weight models for robot manipulation, navigation, and world prediction, built on a shared Qwen3.5 backbone with open weights.
Qwen-RobotManip
Alibaba's generalist VLA model for robotic manipulation, built on Qwen3.5-4B with a DiT action decoder, trained on 38,100+ hours of open-source data, and ranked first on the RoboChallenge generalist track.
Qwen3.7-Plus
Alibaba's first multimodal agent model, combining GUI grounding (ScreenSpot Pro 79.0), 1M-token context, and text-plus-vision input at $0.40/M tokens.
Qwen3.7-Max
Alibaba's agent-first flagship model with a 1M-token context window, topping Terminal-Bench 2.0 and SWE-Bench Pro at roughly one-sixth the cost of Claude Opus 4.7.
