Alibaba’s Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Tops the Speech Leaderboard
Alibaba released Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS, a speech model that ranks first on an independent text-to-speech leaderboard, clones voices across 16 languages and costs a third of ElevenLabs.
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Alibaba Previews Qwen 3.8, Claiming It Trails Only Fable 5
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 rattled markets, though no benchmarks...
China’s Moonshot Releases Kimi K3, Its Largest AI Model Yet
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic's Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
OpenAI Launches Codex Micro, a $230 Keypad for Coders
OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a $230 mechanical keypad built with Work Louder that gives developers physical controls for its Codex coding agent, its first hardware to...
Payments Giants Back x402 Standard for AI Agent Transactions
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and 36 others formed a Linux Foundation body to steward x402, an open standard letting AI agents pay for services directly over...
OpenAI Tells Developers to Stop Over-Prompting GPT-5.6
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
Grok 4.5 Ties for Top Spot on a Coding Comprehension Benchmark
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 tied GPT-5.6 Sol for first on the SWE-Atlas-QnA coding benchmark, a narrow win that highlights the model's real edge: efficiency and low cost.
Anthropic Extends Fable 5 Access Again as OpenAI Lifts Limits
Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access to July 19, its second extension in a week, as OpenAI removed usage caps and made GPT-5.6 Sol cheaper...
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6 agent that pulls context from a user's apps to produce finished docs, slides and sites, as it merges Codex into...
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5, a Cheaper Coding Model Built With Cursor
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5...