Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max this week and marketed the preview as second only to Claude Fable 5 (their launch-day table was more equivocal: the model leads on one of 12 coding-agent rows). But an independent harness came close to the opposite conclusion: a benchmark run, apparently using the Preview version, put Qwen 3.8-Max's best effort setting mid-pack, and its default setting last.Both [...]
XOcean has secured $115mn to expand its fleet of uncrewed surface vessels. Founded in 2017 by James Ives, XOcean builds autonomous boats that zip around the ocean, using sensors to gather large amounts of data on everything from the subsurface structures to the temperature and clarity of the seawater. The bots — which are about the size of a small car — then relay this information in real ti [...]
Chinese AI startup Deepseek had to abandon domestic chips from Huawei and switch to allegedly smuggled Nvidia hardware to train its upcoming flagship model, a setback that highlights China's ongoing struggle to compete with US AI companies without access to cutting-edge chips.<br /> The article Deepseek reportedly had to fall back on Nvidia chips for new model appeared first on The Deco [...]