Alibaba's Qwen team made headlines with three breakthrough releases this week:
—Qwen3 non-thinking update with SOTA performance among open models
—Qwen3-Coder, an agentic coding model that tops benchmarks
—Qwen Code open-source command-line coding tool
Replit dropped Queue, a feature to line up multiple tasks when the Replit Agent is at work
As each task completes, the Agent automatically moves to the next.
Users can also edit, reorder, prioritize tasks
Hedra just launched Live Avatars, a new streaming avatar model in partnership with LiveKit
It allows users to give a visual identity to their AI at just $0.05/min — 15x cheaper than existing solutions — with ultra-low sub-100ms latency
Sapient Intelligence released Hierarchical Reasoning Model
Trained on just 1K examples with no CoT or pre-training, the 27M parameter model handles complex reasoning tasks including extreme-soduko and maze puzzles