Google’s Gemini 3.0 Pro Nears Launch as Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni Redefines Multimodal AI
AI Model Releases & Updates
Gemini 3.0 Pro in AB Testing: Google’s Gemini 3.0 Pro is undergoing AB testing on AI Studio, signaling it is nearing release. Users speculate it will deliver major performance upgrades over Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Qwen3-Omni Models Released: Alibaba’s Qwen team launched three Qwen3-Omni models (30B parameter variants), natively supporting text, image, audio, and video with real-time streaming responses. The models include:
- Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner (specialized in captioning)
- Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking (focused on reasoning)
- Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct (optimized for instruction-following)
- 3 Qwen3-Omni models have been released
- 🚀 Qwen released Qwen3-Omni!
Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 Launched: A new AI-powered image editing tool with multi-image consistency, single-image precision, and built-in ControlNet for advanced manipulation.
MistralAI Magistral Models Added to CAMEL-AI: Magistral Small 1.2 & Medium 1.2 reasoning models now available, offering structured logic, transparent chain-of-thought, and multilingual support for enterprise/research.
AI Research & Tools
MIT’s Generative AI Tool for Material Science: A new MIT-developed tool enhances generative AI’s ability to discover breakthrough materials, potentially accelerating advancements in physics, chemistry, and engineering.
Pluely: Open-Source Alternative to Cluely: A privacy-first AI meeting assistant with system audio capture, speech-to-text, and screenshot support. Free to use with an OpenAI API key.
Perplexity Email Assistant: A new AI email helper for Gmail/Outlook (Perplexity Max subscribers) that drafts replies, schedules meetings, and prioritizes emails.
Industry & Investment News
NVIDIA’s $100B Investment in OpenAI: NVIDIA will invest $100 billion progressively in OpenAI to deploy 10+ GW of NVIDIA systems, supporting OpenAI’s AI infrastructure and model development.