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Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max coded unattended for 16 days, and unlike every rival long-horizon claim it shipped the whole commit trace on public GitHub. Open it and the 16 days become 'more than ten' in Alibaba's own words, 13 of 648 commits turn out to be a human's, and one person still holds the merge keys.
August 5, 2026 · 10 min read
Blitzy raised $200 million at a $1.4 billion post-money valuation on May 5, 2026, to deploy thousands of specialized coding agents in parallel against a dynamic knowledge graph of the customer's codebase. The platform calls Claude, GPT, and Gemini more than 100,000 times per run and scored 66.5% on Scale AI's SWE-Bench Pro, the long-horizon coding benchmark where most frontier models struggle. The bet is that the autonomous-coding category just split four ways and Tier 3 — parallel multi-agent orchestration for legacy modernization — has no incumbent. Liberty Mutual, Erie Insurance, and BAL all wrote strategic checks.
May 7, 2026 · 17 min read