multimodal AI

Alibaba launches multimodal AI model with drastically cheaper pricing

Alibaba's Qwen team on Friday released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal AI model that accepts text, image, audio, and video inputs through a single architecture with a 1 million token context window. The launch sent Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares up more…

DeepSeek open-sources its first vision model for AI agents

DeepSeek has open-sourced the weights of its first multimodal model, V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, making 305 billion parameters available on Hugging Face under the MIT License. The release, which went live on August 31, marks the completion of a rollout that began August…

Google spotlights Gemini Omni AI model after crossing 1 billion users

Google Alphabet Inc. is riding a wave of momentum for its AI efforts this week, publishing an expert roundtable on its Gemini Omni model, celebrating a billion-user milestone for its Gemini assistant, and expanding the platform's ecosystem with new connected…