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Underdog, Conway Research’s on-device assistant, released Saluki 27B under the Apache 2.0 license, a 2-bit compression of Qwen3.8-27B that shrinks the model from 54 GB to 7.89 GB, improves at tool calling and loses 12 to 18 points on competition math.
On 10 September 2026 Anthropic published a report on unauthorized distillation campaigns. The largest, attributed to Alibaba, generated 151 million exchanges (May–July) via ~3,500 accounts with a fixed prompt to extract Claude chain-of-thought for the Qwen family. Other campaigns involve Moonshot AI and DeepSeek; observed total is nearly 200 million exchanges.
At Apsara Conference 2026 in Hangzhou, Alibaba launched the Zhenwu V900 accelerator (3× M890 performance), clusters up to 500,000 accelerators, 5–10 trillion–parameter Qwen plans, and more than 20 GW of global cloud capacity by 2032.