2025-03-29
Google's Gemini 2.5, Alibaba's new Qwen, and upgraded DeepSeek V3: This week's AI launches
Each week, Quartz rounds up product launches, updates, and funding news from artificial intelligence-focused startups and companies.
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2025-10-21
Qwen's new Deep Research update lets you turn its reports into webpages, podcasts in seconds
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s famously prolific Qwen Team of AI model researchers and engineers has introduced a major expansion to its Qwen Deep Research tool, which is available as an optiona [...]
2025-10-21
DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large l [...]
2025-09-29
DeepSeek's new V3.2-Exp model cuts API pricing in half to less than 3 cents per 1M input tokens
DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability.The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that [...]
2025-11-20
Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing
Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were imm [...]
2025-11-18
Google unveils Gemini 3 claiming the lead in math, science, multimodal and agentic AI benchmarks
After more than a month of rumors and feverish speculation — including Polymarket wagering on the release date — Google today unveiled Gemini 3, its newest proprietary frontier model family and th [...]
2025-10-27
MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)
Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that [...]
2025-10-02
'Western Qwen': IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture
IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost [...]
2025-02-06
US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices
Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not [...]