🎙️ In today’s episode:

Kuaishou Launches “Auto Think” Reasoning Model: The Kwaipilot team unveils Auto Think, an open-source model that switches between “thinking” and “non-thinking” modes depending on task complexity.

Qwen3-Embedding Series Goes Open Source: Alibaba releases new embedding models in 0.6B, 4B, and 8B sizes. The 8B model tops the multilingual MTEB leaderboard, and the smallest version may be optimized for mobile, just as Alibaba confirms a partnership to support Apple Intelligence in China.
OceanBase Expands Its “Data and AI” Strategy: The Alibaba-backed database platform now integrates with 60+ AI partners like LangChain and LlamaIndex.

🔗 Links & Resources:
Auto Think (Kwaipilot): https://kwaipilot.ai/Qwen3-Embedding: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6BOceanBase x AI Ecosystem: https://en.oceanbase.com/

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🤔 Kuaishou’s Auto-Think. Alibaba's On-Device Embeddings. AI MySQL.