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Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5-397B MoE Model with 17B Active Parameters and 1M Token Context for AI agents
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3.5 release marks a major breakthrough in open-source AI, introducing the 397B-A17B flagship model that utilizes a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and a unique Gated Delta Network hybrid design. This technical synergy allows the model to offer 400B-class reasoning with the inference speed of a 17B model, achieving a massive 8.6x to 19.0x increase in decoding throughput. As a native vision-language model trained through Early Fusion, it excels at agentic tasks and visual reasoning across 201 languages, supported by a staggering 1M token context window in the Qwen3.5-Plus version. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it provides devs and data scientists a high-performance, cost-efficient foundation for building the next generation of multimodal autonomous agents....… Read the full analysis/article here.
Anthropic Releases Claude 4.6 Sonnet with 1 Million Token Context to Solve Complex Coding and Search for Developers
Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 Sonnet introduces a paradigm shift in AI efficiency by combining Adaptive Thinking with native Python-based Dynamic Filtering for web search. By allowing the model to allocate specific compute to reasoning tokens, it achieves a massive 79.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 72.5% on OSWorld, making it the premier choice for autonomous agents and complex coding. With an expanded 1M token context window and a stable price point of $3 per 1M input tokens, 4.6 Sonnet provides software engineers and data scientists with a high-precision, production-ready ‘workhorse’ that effectively eliminates outdated search results and logic hallucinations through internal verification....… Read the full analysis/article here.
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▶ How to Build a Production-Grade Agentic AI System with Hybrid Retrieval, Provenance-First Citations, Repair Loops, and Episodic Memory Codes Tutorial