A lot of activities from Qwen team, and DeepSeek is starting to go out from their temporary stealth mode. Following is a summary with the updates that I found most interesting from them.

Qwen models

• Qwen3-Omni, a 30B multimodal model that supports text, audio, images and video. MoE-based Thinker–Talker design with AuT pretraining for strong general representations, plus a multi-codebook design that drives latency to a minimum. It seems to think a lot! BF16 Instruct model is 78.85 GB. This model replaces the previous Qwen2.5-Omni.
• Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 FP8 quantized versions. Official ones.

DeepSeek updates to V3.1

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-v3.1-Terminus, an updated version of their V3.1 model. What’s improved? Language consistency: fewer CN/EN mix-ups & no more random chars. Also, it seems to be improved in agentic tool use.

Exciting times.