China’s AI Race Shifts Toward Cheaper Models and Lower Inference Costs
China’s AI competition is increasingly moving beyond model size and benchmark performance, with Alibaba and DeepSeek putting greater emphasis on the cost of running advanced systems. Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max is its largest AI model so far, while DeepSeek’s V4-Flash is attracting attention for significantly lower inference prices than many competing models. The developments highlight a growing […]
Alibaba Explores Revenue Sharing for Its Next Qwen AI Model
Alibaba is considering a new commercial strategy for its Qwen AI models that could change how large companies use its open-weight technology. The company is reportedly planning to introduce revenue-sharing requirements for certain commercial users of its next Qwen model. Under the proposed approach, larger businesses that generate revenue by providing the model as a […]
AI Model Designs New Phages That Can Attack E. coli
Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated how generative AI could move beyond analyzing biological data and begin designing entirely new viral genomes. Using the Evo 2 AI model, the team generated thousands of candidate DNA sequences based on the bacteriophage ΦX174, a virus that infects bacteria. Nearly 300 of the AI-generated genomes were ultimately synthesized […]