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Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Su
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
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- Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (Juro Osawa/The Information)
- Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area (Thinking Machines Lab)
- Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a 1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least 150M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
- Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-10-01