Skopje Hosts First-Ever AI Revolution Summit, Uniting Balkan Founders to Shape the Future

Skopje Hosts Landmark Startup AI Revolution Summit, Uniting Balkan Founders and Global Experts

More than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and tech leaders from over 30 countries gathered in Skopje, Macedonia for the inaugural Startup AI Revolution Summit, a four-day event that organizers and attendees hailed as a turning point for the Balkan startup ecosystem. Organized by Startup Club Skopje under the leadership of Sasho Jovanovski, the summit featured more … Read more

AKF, UK, Switzerland Launch Green Innovation Drive in Central Asia

AKF, UK, Switzerland Launch Green Innovation Drive in Central Asia

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), in partnership with the governments of the United Kingdom and Switzerland, has launched a new phase of regional collaboration aimed at accelerating green and inclusive economic growth across the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The initiative, implemented through Accelerate Prosperity — An AKDN Initiative, seeks to expand climate-smart innovation and … Read more

Alibaba’s Qwen3-VL AI Pushes Past GPT-5, Gemini in Visual Math and Long-Video Analysis

Alibaba report shows its Qwen3-VL multimodal AI suite

A few months after launching its Qwen3-VL multimodal AI suite, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report showing the system outperforming leading commercial models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1, in a range of visual math, document comprehension and long-video analysis benchmarks. The findings highlight significant advances in open-source … Read more