Day: August 3, 2026

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba’s famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company’s published benchmarks hold up under…

Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can’t remember what the last five people asked it, and can’t tell you whether last month’s version actually worked. In a fireside chat with VentureBeat’s Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026, Asana’s chief product officer, Arnab Bose,…

Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026, NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing frontier models in regulated production, where reliability, context, guardrails, and security determine whether AI delivers enterprise value. The conversation centered around the question facing every enterprise…