LLM News

Alibaba has released Qwen3.5-9B, a 9-billion parameter multimodal language model capable of processing both images and text. The model is available under Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face with transformer-compatible architecture.

Inception has released Mercury 2, positioning it as the first diffusion-based language reasoning model. Rather than generating text sequentially word-by-word like standard language models, Mercury 2 refines entire passages in parallel, according to the company.