The day in AI
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Launches and products
12 Aug 2026Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (open weights) Open weights of a 2.4T-parameter, 95B-active MoE: Terminal Bench 2.1 86.6 and SWE-bench Pro 67.7, under a Qwen3.8-Max license.12 Aug 2026LovableLovable $400M at $13.3B Lovable raises $400M at a $13.3B valuation led by Menlo Ventures and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund; 60M+ projects built since launch.12 Aug 2026Suno / BMGSuno and BMG global licensing partnership Suno signed a global licensing partnership with BMG covering recordings and publishing, settling past use, ahead of its first industry-partnered model.12 Aug 2026xAIGrok 4.6 Grok 4.6, tuned for long-running agents, scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol, at unchanged $2/$6 pricing.12 Aug 2026HiggsfieldCinema Studio 4.0 Cinema Studio 4.0 allows 30-second generations and up to 50 references per shot, with camera, colour and character-performance controls.
People and teams
Lin JunyangAlibaba (Qwen) → Pragmatik Labs. Five months after leaving Qwen he launched Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs for agents across digital and physical worlds; angel round co-led by Gaorong and HSG with Tencent backing.