Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native multimodal model featuring a 1M-token context window, 113-language audio support, and a 98% reduction in audio input costs compared to prior generations. Meanwhile, Google DeepMind researchers unveiled Dream-RSI, an orchestration framework that boosts AI agent search efficiency up to 162× by simulating trajectories over past exploration history without fine-tuning underlying weights.

We’ll talk about:

• Native text, image, audio, and video processing with a 131K output limit, built-in search, and context caching across global API regions.
• Search-orchestration system reducing costly environment discovery calls by up to 162× across GPU kernel and algorithm optimization tasks.
• Data center operator funding modular "AI factories" backed by a $13  ...