At Apsara 2026, Alibaba Cloud mapped Model, Harness and Context to AI Native Cloud, Agent Native Cloud and Context Engine.
Alibaba highlighted Qwen3.8 LiveTranslate and five Qwen Audio 3.1 models at Apsara 2026.
After a researcher found ZCode uploading repository snapshots, including Git history, Zhipu open sourced the tool and removed the Repo Wiki upload workflow in v3.14.0.
Huawei’s OceanStor M900 extends SuperPoD KV caching from chip memory and DRAM onto shared SSD storage, with a claimed 64 PB of capacity per cluster.
In a reported 80B total, roughly 3B active MoE comparison, HySparse2 uses 5.02× fewer prefill FLOPs and 2.69 GB rather than 12.09 GB of KV cache at 1 million tokens versus Hybrid SWA.
Qwen Intelligence is Alibaba’s software platform for phone makers, not a new Alibaba phone.
Qwen Book is Alibaba Cloud’s proposed AI agent computer, unveiled in September 2026.
Announced in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, the Atlas 960E SuperPoD is Huawei’s near packaged optics AI system for up to 4,096 NPUs, rated at 8 EFLOPS FP8 or 16 EFLOPS FP4.
DeepSeek DSec runs isolated agent actions for reinforcement learning rollouts and evaluation.
SenseTime launched the production SenseNova U1 Pro on September 21, 2026, through its Raccoon app and SenseNova API.
Released September 23, 2026, Spark ASR 2.0 is claimed to reduce transcription errors and produce more fluent text than Spark ASR 1.0 for roughly 10% higher inference cost.
On September 22, 2026, Chengdu based XFEON presented a physical AI lineup spanning chips, Token workstations, a data loop and an embodied AI model.