The frontier now fits in a 17GB file. Alibaba’s Apache-licensed Qwen3.8-27B became the first local model to score frontier capability on the intelligence index, matching DeepSeek V4-Pro and GPT-5.6 Luna, and capably drives a coding agent from a laptop.
Meanwhile a tracking device hidden in a shipment of rare books ended its journey at a facility where the books are scanned for training data and destroyed.