AI Updates on 2025-11-27

Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen3-VL technical report on arXiv, detailing architecture, infrastructure, data, and evaluation for vision-language models. The three models achieved over 1M downloads in just over a month, with Qwen3-VL-8B leading at 2M+ downloads @Alibaba_Qwen
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-Math-V2, the first open-source model to achieve gold medal performance on the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, available with Apache 2.0 license at 689GB from Hugging Face @simonw
Alibaba releases Z-Image, a 6B parameter image generation model with Apache 2.0 license featuring ultra-fast sub-second generation on H800, fits within 16GB consumer devices, and supports both English and Chinese with Turbo, Base, and Edit variants @huggingface
PrimeIntellect announces INTELLECT-3, scaling reinforcement learning to a 100B+ MoE model achieving state-of-the-art performance for its size across math, code, and reasoning, with fully open-source weights, data, frameworks, and evaluations @huggingface

Analysis reveals 49 US AI startups raised $100M or more in 2025, indicating continued strong investment in the AI sector @TechCrunch
Cohere expands partnership with SAP to meet increasing demand for sovereign AI technology across Europe and other global markets, planning to make their agentic AI platform North available on SAP's infrastructure @Cohere
Nordic founders are taking bigger swings in AI and technology ventures, with the approach showing positive results in the market @TechCrunch
Glid wins Startup Battlefield 2025 by building solutions to make logistics simpler, safer, and smarter, with founder Kevin Damoa incorporating mindfulness into his leadership style @TechCrunch

Concerns raised about systems ignoring the reality of AI use, with warnings that pretending AI isn't being used allows the worst versions of AI use to win by default. Policies needed to mitigate harm while taking advantage of possible gains @emollick
Debate emerges around anti-open-source agenda, with concerns that some organizations may use security concerns to push regulations making it harder for people to own their intelligence @ylecun
Clement Delangue emphasizes the significance of open-source AI democratization, noting that DeepSeek-Math-V2 represents owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free with no limitations, nerfing, or company control @huggingface

Perplexity Finance adds Moving Averages feature and introduces multiple account support on Perplexity Assistant, with plans for numerous updates in December for both Perplexity and Comet @AravSrinivas
Google Gemini Pro demonstrates photo restoration capabilities, allowing users to restore family photos with finer and sharper details as if taken with a modern camera @GeminiApp
Claude Code introduces frontend design plugin enabling developers to create beautiful greenfield apps, with users reporting being blown away by results using the design plugin with Opus 4.5 @_catwu
JustiGuide launches AI-powered platform to help people navigate the U.S. immigration system @TechCrunch
AI context understanding highlighted as crucial for helpfulness, with the principle that context is all you need enabling AI to understand users deeply and provide more relevant assistance @AravSrinivas

Alibaba Qwen's paper on Gated Attention for Large Language Models focusing on non-linearity, sparsity, and attention-sink-free architecture receives the NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Award @Alibaba_Qwen
DeepSeek-Math-V2 technical report reveals focus on training better verifiers through improved data work and synthetic pipelines, moving away from spontaneous self-verification approaches. The process leverages high-level expert human annotations and meta-verifiers to assess the assessment process itself, creating positive feedback loops between proof verifiers and generators @AndrewCurran_
White House and Department of Energy initiative recognizes AI's potential to accelerate progress in science, with collaboration planned on the initiative @demishassabis
Hugging Face datasets adds Lance support, expanding data handling capabilities for AI research @huggingface
MIT researchers identify compounds that can fight viral infection by activating defense pathways inside host cells @MIT