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Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Native Omnimodal Model With 1M Context

September 19

Alibaba's Qwen team has launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omnimodal model that jointly handles text, image, audio, and video with a 1-million-token context window.

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