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Alibaba's Qwen division released Qwen 3.6 Plus on April 2, 2026, offering free access to a model with a 1,000,000 token context window. The model combines linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing and achieves a 78.8 score on SWE-bench Verified for software engineering tasks.

Google announced Tuesday that all US users, including free-tier subscribers, now have access to Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app, Chrome, and AI Mode in Search. The feature, previously limited to paid AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, connects Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and other Google services to automatically personalize Gemini's responses without manual prompt engineering.

Anthropic has expanded Claude's memory feature to free plan users and launched a dedicated import tool for transferring conversation history from competing chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. The update aims to reduce friction for users switching to Claude by preserving their AI interaction context and preferences.

Google is rolling out its 'Past Chats' personalization feature to free users of the Gemini app globally. The feature allows users to access and reference previous conversations within the app.