The day in AI

Thursday 26 June 2025

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Launches and products

26 Jun 2025Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen Code (open-source coding CLI) Open-source terminal coding agent from the Qwen team, originally based on Google's Gemini CLI, built to drive Qwen3-Coder and other models.26 Jun 2025Google DeepMindGemma 3n (E2B, E4B) Gemma 3n is a pair of on-device multimodal open models (E2B, E4B) that use MatFormer nesting and per-layer embeddings, and E4B is the first sub-10B model above 1300 on LMArena.26 Jun 2025Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen VLo Preview unified image understanding and generation model in Qwen Chat that draws progressively, left to right and top to bottom.

Research

26 Jun 2025Sapient Intelligence (per authors' project)Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) A 27M-parameter two-timescale recurrent model, trained on about 1,000 examples, solves Sudoku and mazes and scores on ARC without chain of thought.

People and teams

Trapit BansalOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Listed as a foundational contributor on o1 and helped start OpenAI's RL work with Sutskever; Meta wanted him for its first reasoning model. OpenAI confirmed he left.