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Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next, an 80 billion parameter model with 3 billion active parameters, has achieved a 70.6 score on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark. This performance is notable as it rivals top closed-source models while offering downloadable weights under the Apache 2.0 license. The model employs a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture and a hybrid attention mechanism, combining linear attention for long contexts with standard attention for global context reconstruction. AI

A new deep research agent called Code Researcher has been developed to tackle complex systems code by analyzing large codebases and their commit histories. This agent significantly outperforms existing methods on benchmarks like kBenchSyz, achieving a 48% crash-resolution rate with GPT-4o and even higher rates with Gemini 2.5-Flash. The research highlights the critical role of gathering extensive global context and employing multi-faceted reasoning for effective code modification in large systems. AI