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Alibaba releases open-source AI agent to rival OpenAI’s Deep Research

SCMP | Sept. 18, 2025, 9 a.m. | Original

Alibaba has released a deep research agent. Photo: Reuters

Published: 9:00pm, 18 Sep 2025

Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled a “leading open-source deep research” artificial intelligence agent that it says matches the performance of OpenAI’s flagship Deep Research tool, while being more efficient.

The agent has been integrated into Alibaba’s maps app, Amap , and its AI-powered legal research tool, Tongyi FaRui, according to a blog post on Tuesday by Alibaba’s AI search development team, Tongyi Lab. Alibaba owns the

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How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization

MIT News | Sept. 16, 2025, 11 a.m. | Original

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a universal guide for estimating how large language models will perform based on smaller models in the same family.

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AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements

Phoronix | Sept. 16, 2025, 9 a.m. | Original

Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem.

ROCm 7.0.0 is officially out and all of the ROCm 7.0 documentation has also been published along with the binaries being available via the AMD repository.

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AMD ROCm 7.0 Begins Rocking Out On GitHub

Phoronix | Sept. 16, 2025, 5:55 a.m. | Original

As a pleasant surprise waking up this morning is AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags beginning to appear on GitHub, indicating the likely imminent official release of the ROCm 7.0 compute stack as the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct software stack aimed to be the open alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem.

For months we have been eager for the ROCm 7.0 release with HIP C++ aligning even more closely against CUDA for better compatibility, AMD Instinct MI350x and MI355

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OmniFocus 4.8 gets on-device Apple Intelligence support

9to5mac | Sept. 15, 2025, 10:26 a.m. | Original

It should come as no surprise that Omni Group is for macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and visionOS 26 on day one, with a full Liquid Glass revamp across its entire suite of apps.

But beyond the visual overhaul, one of the most interesting additions is the support for Apple’s Foundation Models framework in OmniFocus 4.8. Here’s what it can do.

With today’s updates, Apple is introducing the Foundation Models framework , which lets developers plug into

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"Rustmaker" Merged For LibreOffice 26.2 Development As Latest Rust Integration

Phoronix | Sept. 15, 2025, 3 a.m. | Original

For fans of open-source projects embracing the Rust programming language, merged for the LibreOffice 26.2 development code for this open-source office suite is "Rustmaker" as a Rust code maker for UNO integration with this open-source office suite.

LibreOffice 26.2 as the next major release of this leading Microsoft Office alternative is now coming new bindings to enhance the Rust programming language support.

Merged this weekend was Rustmaker as the Rust code maker for Universal Network Objects (UNO) integration in LibreOffice.

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How Alibaba builds its most efficient AI model to date

SCMP | Sept. 13, 2025, 9 p.m. | Original

A new technique has enabled Alibaba to develop powerful AI models that are more compact. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 9:00am, 14 Sep 2025

A technical innovation has allowed Alibaba Group Holding, one of the leading players in China’s artificial intelligence boom, to develop a new generation of foundation models that match the strong performance of larger predecessors while being significantly smaller and more cost efficient.

Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud computing division of Alibaba, unveiled on Friday a new generation of large language models that it said heralded “the future of efficient LLMs”. The new models are

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Alibaba releases next-generation Qwen3 model as AI rivalry intensifies

SCMP | Sept. 11, 2025, 10:41 p.m. | Original

Alibaba Cloud’s latest open-source AI model, the Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B, features 80 billion parameters. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 10:41am, 12 Sep 2025 Updated: 10:42am, 12 Sep 2025

The company’s Qwen team said it adopted an array of architectural innovations aimed at maximising performance while minimising computational costs, according to a note published on the developer platform GitHub .

The model is developed by Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud computing services unit of Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post.

Compared with its predecessor, Qwen3-

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