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Qwen is on the lead again! OR Alibaba Leading the AI Race

Plus, 🧱 Generate a Full Landing Page Wireframe in 60 Seconds, AI Just Hit 3 Massive Milestones — All in One Week, and more!


Hello there! Ready to dive into another upgrading, Mind-boggling, and Value-filled Shift?

Today we have:

🚀 Qwen3-235B's New Instruct Model Disrupts the Frontier Race

🧱 Generate a Full Landing Page Wireframe in 60 Seconds

🚨 AI Just Hit 3 Massive Milestones — All in One Week

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

🚀 Qwen3-235B's New Instruct Model Disrupts the Frontier Race

Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped a major upgrade: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507. By separating “instruct” from “thinking” models, they’ve optimized performance across key reasoning, QA, and agent benchmarks. Fully open-source and live on Qwen Chat, this model is now rivaling Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4o in real-world use.

The Shift:

1. Qwen's instruct-only model hits harder with smarter training - Alibaba scrapped hybrid thinking and split model training into two distinct tracks, unlocking higher accuracy across reasoning, alignment, and multilingual tasks. It's a leaner, more focused model that outperforms its predecessor without inflating parameter count. 

2. It’s beating Kimi K2 and keeping pace with Claude and GPT-4o - On benchmarks like ZebraLogic (95.0), CSimpleQA (84.3), and Creative Writing (87.5), Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 outscored Kimi K2. It also holds its own against Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4o in areas like MMLU-Redux and MultiPL-E. 

3. Open, accessible, and live now across major platforms - The model is already deployed as the default on Qwen Chat. It’s also freely available on Hugging Face and ModelScope in both standard and FP8 formats. 

Qwen isn’t just matching the frontier, it’s redefining open-source AI standards with world-class performance and accessibility. The rise of Qwen proves that smart training choices can rival massive resource budgets. And with bigger updates already teased, this might only be the beginning.


🧱 Generate a Full Landing Page Wireframe in 60 Seconds

This prompt builds your entire landing page, section by section, based on proven copy frameworks and your product inputs.

Step-by-step:

  1. Open Claude, Gemini, or Grok

  2. Paste this prompt (customize the inputs):

<role>You are a conversion-focused copywriter trained in DTC, SaaS, and info product funnels.</role>

<product>AI-powered video ad tool that turns product images into TikTok-style reels.</product>

<audience>DTC founders and growth marketers running paid social</audience>

<task>Write a full landing page wireframe using these sections:

• Headline & Subheadline (hero)

• Problem Stack

• Product Benefits

• Social Proof (testimonials or logos)

• CTA Block (offer + button)</task>

<style>Keep the tone punchy, clear, and conversion-optimized.</style>

3.  Run it. Your output will include:

Complete wireframe content

Clear CTAs

Story-driven structure that flows top to bottom

Pro tip: Once you’ve got your structure, paste it into Framer or Webflow and match visual layout to the copy’s rhythm.

🚨 AI Just Hit 3 Massive Milestones — All in One Week

AI isn’t just evolving, it’s accelerating on all fronts: political, commercial, and intellectual. From Capitol Hill debates to App Store spikes and math olympiad gold medals, this week showed just how deeply AI is reshaping the future. 

The Shift:

1. ChatGPT Surges to 2.5 Billion Daily Prompts - ChatGPT now handles 2.5 billion prompts every day, with 330 million coming from U.S. users. That’s more than double its daily volume just eight months ago, when it stood at 1 billion.

2. Grok 4 Proves There’s Real Money in Model Launches - Elon’s xAI spiked Grok’s iOS revenue 325% overnight after launching Grok 4, hitting $419K/day, while downloads surged 279%. But when they dropped raunchy “AI companions” the next week, revenue barely budged. 

3. Google’s Gemini Just Won the Math Olympics - Gemini’s Deep Think model solved 5 of 6 IMO problems perfectly, earning a gold medal score under the 4.5-hour contest limit. It’s the first time a general-purpose model achieved this level of reasoning on real-world math problems without translations or human scaffolding. 

This isn’t just hype, it’s proof that AI is scaling across influence (policy), usage (productivity), revenue (consumer demand), and intelligence (reasoning). Altman’s narrative is now a macroeconomic one. Grok shows there's real velocity behind feature drops, and Gemini sets a new global bar for intellectual benchmarks. 


🚀AI Tools for the Shift

🎥 Imagine ExplainersCreate AI-powered explainer videos in minutes. Turn ideas into animated stories.

🤖 AliceAI automation with serious power. From tasks to workflows, Alice handles it all.

✍️ TrendHopperAutomate your blogging with AI. Trending topics, written and published on autopilot.

🧠 JustSimpleChatChat with any AI model from one place. A seamless hub for all your AI tools.

📹 VideoinuCreate viral YouTube videos with multilingual support. Monetization-friendly, beginner-ready.


🔨Quick Shifts

🧠 Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will lead OpenAI’s Applications division starting August 18, overseeing one-third of the company. She’ll focus on scaling product use cases, reporting directly to Sam Altman.

🏃‍♂️ OpenAI and Google DeepMind’s AI models both scored gold at the 2025 Math Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 problems, but clashed over who earned credit first and how.

🧑‍💻 A new Common Sense Media study found 72% of US teens (ages 13–17) have used AI companions, with 52% using them regularly and 13% chatting daily, mainly for entertainment, advice, or emotional support.

🎥 Netflix used generative AI to complete VFX for an Argentine series 10× faster than traditional tools, showcasing AI’s growing role in entertainment production and streamlining high-quality visual effects workflows.


That’s all for today’s edition see you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!

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