Alibaba's Qwen team made headlines with three breakthrough releases this week: —Qwen3 non-thinking update with SOTA performance among open models
—Qwen3-Coder, an agentic coding model that tops benchmarks
—Qwen Code open-source command-line coding tool
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Alibaba Qwen3 Releases SOTA Open Models and Coding Tools
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Alignment Steganography and Strategic Open Model Release
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incredible work on alignment steganography from anthropic fellows i've been looking for a straussian explanation of why china keeps publishing open models out of the goodness of their hearts if you do stuff like use open models to, idk, clean *ahem* synthetically paraphrase
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Qwen3-Coder-480B runs locally on high-end Mac Studio
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Looks like Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a VERY strong coding model to run locally… if you can afford a ~$10,000 512GB Mac Studio to run it on!
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Qwen3-Coder Surpasses Kimi K2 with 1M Token Context
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Another day goes by and another new open-source model that improves on the previous one! Qwen3-Coder steps onto the scene, surpassing the beloved Kimi K2, 256k tokens of context window expandable to 1M, trained for agentic tasks and hand-in-hand with a new Qwen CLI. Epic
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Voxtral Technical Report Released: Open Science AI Research
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In our continued commitment to open-science, we are releasing the Voxtral Technical Report: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2507.13264 The report covers details on pre-training, post-training, alignment and evaluations. We also present analysis on selecting the optimal model architecture, which -
Qwen Unveils Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
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Qwen has released the new Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct model along with an open-source Qwen Code tool (a fork of Gemini CLI).
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LLM Plugin Dependencies and Version Management
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They are separate and you can usually update them separately, but sometimes a plugin may depend on a more recent version of LLM due to adding support for a new feature such as tools Check pyproject.toml in the plugin repo to see
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Gemini-2.5-flash-lite now available in llm-gemini plugin
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The new gemini-2.5-flash-lite model ID is now available in my LLM CLI tool / Python library via the updated llm-gemini plugin https://
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Python PEP proposal for favorite dependency declaration
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Would be nice to have a PEP to declare “this is my favorite dependency”
