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Alibaba Puts Qwen Into Glasses: N1 Series Goes on Sale in China
Alibaba unveiled its Qwen Glasses N1 and N1 Pro at a Hangzhou event on October 13 and put them on sale in China, alongside Bose co-engineered Qwen Clip earbuds.
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Alibaba Opens Invite Signups for Qwen "Personal Agent"
Alibaba's Qwen opened invite-based trial signups for "Personal Agent," an in-app agent feature in the Qwen App, available in China with access granted in batches.
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Microsoft Releases Decision-1: A Scoring Model That Decides Instead of Writing
On October 9, Microsoft released Decision-1, a scoring model for structured decisions. It writes no text — it picks the best option from a given set and returns probability scores. Built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B, input costs $0.042 per million tokens, output is free. The decision-model track that startups heated up last month now has Microsoft, OpenAI, and Cloudflare all in.
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Reflection AI's First Open-Weight Model Is Coming: Taking On DeepSeek and Qwen
Axios reported exclusively on October 4 that the Nvidia-backed AI startup Reflection AI will release its first open-weight foundation model this month, targeting DeepSeek and Qwen. Founded by two former DeepMind researchers, the company raised $2 billion last year at an $8 billion valuation — but the model name, parameter count, license and benchmarks are still undisclosed.
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Alibaba Plays Its Full-Stack AI Hand: Qwen 4 Training, Zhenwu V900 Chip in Mass Production Next Year
On September 22, Alibaba unveiled its full-stack AI strategy at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou: Qwen 4 is training, future versions planned at 5–10 trillion parameters; its in-house Zhenwu V900 AI chip is 3x the previous generation, mass production in Q1 2027; Alibaba Cloud targets over 20GW of global data center capacity by 2032.