Qwen3

Chinese lab AllSpark has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-weight search agents built on Qwen3 models that claim the top spot among open-weight systems in their size classes on four research benchmarks. The release includes model weights, an agent harness, and evaluation code, with training pipelines to follow.

Microsoft has released Mage-VL, a codec-native multimodal foundation model built on a from-scratch 4B-parameter visual encoder paired with Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507. The model claims up to 3.5x inference speedup over uniform frame sampling and outperforms Qwen3-VL-4B on video and temporal-grounding benchmarks, according to Microsoft.