AGI Dreams Podcast – February 17, 2026

AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest · Feb 17, 2026 · 18m · transcript

The Open-Weight Arms Race Heats Up

In this episode:

The Open-Weight Arms Race Heats Up — Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, a 397B MoE model with Apache 2.0 licensing, delivers frontier-competitive inference at 120 tokens/sec on Blackwell GPUs via FP4 quantization. Meanwhile Google's Gemma 3n runs natively on Android, and enterprise self-hosting guides for vLLM on EKS show the open-weight ecosystem maturing rapidly.

AppSec Is About to Hit a Wall It Didn't See Coming — AI-generated code is outpacing AppSec programs designed for human-speed development, while AI vulnerability discovery approaches…