The day in AI
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Launches and products
26 Aug 2026Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 125B-parameter (6B active) multimodal MoE that previews the Qwen4 architecture, built on Gated DeltaNet plus Qwen Sparse Attention, with 51B of N-gram embeddings.26 Aug 2026Zhipu AI / Z.aiGLM-5.3-Flash First natively multimodal GLM-5 model, a 320B-total (18B active) MIT-licensed MoE on a hybrid sparse and linear attention design.26 Aug 2026AnthropicClaude in Chrome generally available Claude in Chrome reaches general availability on every paid plan and can now act autonomously, with a safety classifier checking each action.26 Aug 2026GoogleGemini 3.5 Transcribe and Transcribe Live Gemini 3.5 Transcribe brings dedicated speech-to-text models with 85+ languages, diarization, word timestamps and a streaming Live variant.
People and teams
Barret ZophOpenAI → Google DeepMind. Became GDM vice president of research working on RL and post-training, about seven months after returning to OpenAI; arrived three weeks after the Hassabis/Dean reshuffle.