multimodal AI
4 published articles
Physical AI
Alibaba's Qwen is now the brain inside 150,000 robots, cars, glasses, and drones
Alibaba's Qwen AI family now powers over 150,000 hardware devices, from humanoid robots to children's cameras, as the company pivots from chatbots to Physical AI, integrating multimodal models into robots, cars, glasses, and drones.
2026-07-14
Google DeepMind
Gemma 4 just made every other open-weight model look 10x too big
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 natively multimodal open-weight family introduces thinking mode, encoder-free architecture, and MoE options. The 2.3B model matches Gemma 3's 27B performance. The 31B model tops open-weight leaderboards.
2026-07-13
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud's EMR Serverless Spark now processes images and video in plain SQL, no Python needed
Alibaba Cloud’s EMR Serverless Spark now supports images and video frames directly in SQL, letting data engineers skip Python overhead. A case study on autonomous driving data preprocessing shows automated ETL pipelines powered by Qwen vision models replacing manual annotation.
2026-07-09
Open source
The first open-source web agent that doesn't need HTML just beat GPT-4o
MolmoWeb agents, available in 4B and 8B sizes, were trained on MolmoWebMix, a new dataset combining over 130,000 synthetic and human demonstrations. They surpass closed models and set new standards for open web agent research.
2026-04-10