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AI news on February 18, 2026 · Wednesday

26 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.
★ Top story · ModelsFeb 18

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost - VentureBeat

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost VentureBeat

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A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Models·Google DeepMind Blog·Feb 18G

Introducing EVMbench

Models·OpenAI Blog·Feb 18O

Introducing OpenAI for India

Models·OpenAI Blog·Feb 18O

Chinese AI models festoon Spring Festival a year after DeepSeek shock - Reuters

Models·DeepSeek News·Feb 18D

Alibaba Unveils New Qwen AI Model as China’s AI Race Intensifies - waya.media

Models·Qwen News·Feb 18Q

Deepseek v3: How to download the Chinese neural network Deepseek AI, all methods - Хабр

Models·DeepSeek News·Feb 18D

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

Opinion·Hugging Face Blog·Feb 18H

India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars, and smart glasses - TechCrunch

Products·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI - TechCrunch

Models·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

How NVIDIA Extreme Hardware-Software Co-Design Delivered a Large Inference Boost for Sarvam AI’s Sovereign Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog - NVIDIA Developer

Hardware·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

Sarvam takes on Google, OpenAI and Anthropic; launches 105-billion parameter open-source model for India - The Times of India

Models·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

ChatGPT and Gemini struggle with complex Indian languages — but this Bengaluru startup says it can do better - TechRadar

Models·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

Meet Pratyush Kumar, Co-Brain Of Sarvam AI That Claims To Outperform Gemini, ChatGPT - NDTV

Models·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

One-Shot Any Web App with Gradio's gr.HTML

Products·Hugging Face Blog·Feb 18H

Mistral AI to Buy Software Infrastructure Startup Koyeb - WSJ

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 18M

Mistral AI deepens compute ambitions with Koyeb acquisition - InfoWorld

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 18M

Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

Other·Anthropic·Feb 18A

More than 50% of enterprise software could switch to AI, Mistral CEO says - CNBC

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 18M

Mistral AI CEO: Over half of SaaS spending to shift to AI - CNBC

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 18M

Mistral CEO: AI could replace more than half of companies’ software - Computerworld

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 18M

'Companies like Emergent are taking India global in AI': Sarvam AI CEO - MSN

Industry·Sarvam AI News +1·Feb 18SS

Sarvam AI launches India-first sovereign AI models - MSN

Models·Sarvam AI News +1·Feb 18SS

Indian AI startup Sarvam launches 22 local-language models - Tech in Asia

Models·Sarvam AI News +1·Feb 18SS

"You Need Ability To Suffer To Succeed": Sarvam AI Founder At NDTV AI Summit - NDTV

Other·Sarvam AI News·Feb 18S

Key facts: Appaloosa cuts Alibaba stake by $400M; Qwen AI leads in downloads

Models·TradingView·Feb 18T