large language models

3 articles tagged with large language models

August 7, 2026
analysisByteDance

Report: ByteDance Training 10-Trillion-Parameter Model, Largest in China

The Financial Times reports ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, which would make it three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently China's largest model. The claim comes from anonymous insiders and has not been confirmed by ByteDance.

August 4, 2026
model release

Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-Parameter Open-Weight Model for Coding and Agentic Work

Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter flagship model targeting coding and long-horizon agentic work, with open weights promised for next week alongside Qwen3.8-27B. The model posted strong third-party benchmark results, ranking #4 in Frontend Code Arena and matching Claude Opus 4.7 on the Vals Index at roughly 2.3x lower cost.

April 8, 2026
model release

Meta launches proprietary Muse Spark model, abandoning open-source commitment

Meta has released Muse Spark, a proprietary AI model with restricted access via API and portal invite only—a striking reversal from CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2024 manifesto championing open-source AI. The model claims performance matching top competitors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, trained with an order of magnitude less compute than Llama 4.