Alibaba's Qwen team has released the Qwen 3.5 family of open weight models. Junyang Lin, the lead researcher, announced his departure from the team via Twitter.

Gemini 3 Deep Think has been upgraded to enhance its specialized reasoning capabilities for addressing modern science, research, and engineering challenges. The Wang Lab at Duke University is utilizing this technology to design new semiconductor materials.

Top mathematicians have issued a challenge to AI systems to solve a set of unsolved mathematical problems within a week, as part of an initiative called “First Proof.” These problems are newly formulated and are not present in any large language model's training data.