AI Agents

Alibaba just dropped a model with 397 billion parameters that only uses 17 billion of them. And it might be the most important AI release of 2026 so far. Qwen 3.5 landed on the eve of Chinese New Year — 60% cheaper to run than its predecessor, 8x faster at decoding, and supposedly beating GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro on multiple benchmarks. Bold claims. But even if you discount the scoreboard, the engineering underneath tells a story worth paying attention to. ...

A solo developer vibe-codes an AI assistant. It goes viral. Anthropic sends a cease-and-desist over the name. He rebrands — twice. Within a month, OpenAI hires him to “drive the next generation of personal agents.” Peter Steinberger’s journey from hobbyist tinkerer to OpenAI employee is the most 2026 story imaginable. But beneath the speed-run narrative, his move tells us something important about where the entire AI industry is heading. From Side Project to Industry Shaker OpenClaw — originally called Clawdbot, then Moltbot — is an AI assistant that actually does things. Not just answers questions. It manages calendars, books flights, sends messages, and even interacts with other AI assistants on what became a bizarre and delightful AI social network. ...

A solo developer vibe-codes an AI assistant. It goes viral. Anthropic threatens to sue over the name. He rebrands twice. Within a month, he’s hired by OpenAI to build the future of personal AI agents. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s Peter Steinberger’s actual February. From Side Project to OpenAI in 30 Days Steinberger was already a known name — he founded PSPDFKit and ran it for 13 years. But OpenClaw was different. It started as a tinkering project called Clawdbot: an AI assistant that could actually do things. Not just chat. Manage calendars, book flights, send messages, even talk to other AI assistants on what became a genuinely weird and wonderful AI social network. ...