Alibaba Launches Qwen 3.5 Series as OpenAI Recruits OpenClaw Founder for Agents
Generative AI Models
Alibaba Launches Qwen 3.5 Multimodal Model Series: Alibaba has released the Qwen 3.5 series, featuring the flagship 397B parameter model with advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities. These models utilize a hybrid architecture of linear attention and sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) for high inference efficiency and are available on Hugging Face.
- Qwen 3.5
- Qwen 3.5 will be released today
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is out!!
- Qwen 3.5 Plus(397b-a17b) is now available on Chinese Qwen APP
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B will be open source!
- Qwen Released Qwen 3.5 397B and Qwen 3.5 Plus!
Industry Movements & Acquisitions
OpenAI Recruits OpenClaw Founder to Lead Personal Agent Development: OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of the open-source project OpenClaw, to spearhead the development of next-generation AI agents. While key talent moves to OpenAI, the OpenClaw project will continue as an open-source initiative under a newly formed foundation with OpenAI's support.
- OpenAI recruited founder Peter Steinberger of OpenClaw
- Sam: “love the spirit of OpenClaw” → days later OpenAI brings the creator in 👀
- https://youtu.be/KUNSNmr-1Bo?si=7S0grb4AcaZ3TDlE
- https://www.reuters.com/business/openclaw-founder-steinberger-joins-openai-open-source-bot-becomes-foundation-2026-02-15/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AI4tech/comments/1r5lz3m/now_that_the_clawdbot_hype_had_reduced_the_real/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
- OpenClaw is about to be ClosedClaw...OpenAI in Advanced Talks to Hire OpenClaw Founder
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI | TechCrunch
Business & Market Trends
Mistral AI Overtakes Grok in Revenue Growth: The Paris-based startup Mistral AI has reportedly surpassed Elon Musk’s Grok in revenue generation. The company is successfully positioning itself as a leader in European technological sovereignty, attracting major corporate clients looking for alternatives to U.S.-based infrastructure.
AI Security
Google Identifies Massive Prompting Attack Aimed at Cloning Gemini: Google reported that attackers submitted over 100,000 prompts in an attempt to reverse-engineer and clone the Gemini model. The company flagged this as intellectual property theft, highlighting the growing security challenges in protecting proprietary AI models.
New Products & Community Tools
Developer Creates Free Multilingual Voice Cloning App: A new free web service for voice cloning has been launched, built in just one day using Alibaba's Qwen3-TTS open-weight model and Claude Opus 4.6. The application allows users to clone voices in multiple languages from a single audio sample without requiring a sign-up.