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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B Model on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding

Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s... Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 176B total parameters, including 51B N-gram embedding parameters, and activates 6B parameters per token. It has a native 262,144-t

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DZone

Building a Software Factory With AI Agents and Workflows

The term software factory is getting a lot of attention right now, and for a good reason. AI coding assistants can generate code much faster than before. But faster coding alone does not mean faster, safer delivery. In many teams, it simply moves the bottleneck to review, testing, deployment, and operations. A software factory is a way to organize the entire software development life cycle as one connected, repeatable system. Think of a car manufacturing assembly line. Each station has a clear j

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Android Developers Blog

Elevating app quality: Reducing memory usage and improving device migration

Posted by Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM, Google Play Developer & Monetization Maintaining a healthy Android ecosystem is a shared commitment where every app and game has a role to play. To help you deliver the premium experiences users expect, Google Play is introducing two new quality requirements: one focused on reducing app memory footprint, and another on providing a secure, seamless device migration experience. First, to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware constraints and

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The Verge Tech

Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’

Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate, and comes as we're still waiting for Google to release the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that it promised to roll out in June. Google says that 3.5 Transcribe "represents a major advancement from our previous transcription model, Chirp 3," especially regardin

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