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AI Daily Brief — 24 July 2025

A China-vs-US Thursday. Alibaba kept the Qwen open-source pressure on. Axios broke the OpenAI GPT-5 August target. CSIS and law firms unpacked the Trump Action Plan. Funding rolled — Vanta, LegalOn, Delve.

Top stories

  • Qwen3-Coder on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct weights publicly available, with API access via Alibaba Model Studio. via Hugging Face
  • Axios scoop: OpenAI prepares GPT-5 launch for August. Sources tell Axios OpenAI targeting August for GPT-5, combining traditional and reasoning-model attributes. Altman’s July 23 podcast praised the new model; plans for mini and nano variants via API. via Axios
  • China Daily covers Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder unveiling. Frames the 480B MoE coder as a direct rival to closed-source US coding models. via China Daily
  • Vanta closes $150M Series D at $4.15B. Trust-management platform led by Wellington Management with Sequoia, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, JPMorgan and Craft Ventures. Brings total funding to $504M as Vanta pushes deeper into AI-driven trust and compliance. via BankInfoSecurity
  • LegalOn raises $50M Series E led by Goldman + OpenAI partnership. Series E led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with Mori Hamada participating. Strategic partnership with OpenAI brings AI contract review to the legal mainstream. via Law.com
  • Delve $32M Series A at $300M valuation. MIT-founded, led by Insight Partners with Fortune 500 CISOs as angels. Builds domain-specific AI agents that automate HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI and GDPR workflows for 500+ customers including Lovable and Wispr Flow. via PR Newswire

Who shipped

Alibaba shipped Qwen3-Coder weights. Axios shipped a scoop. Vanta, LegalOn and Delve shipped capital.

Open-source pulse

Apidog published a deep-dive on the Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 release, confirming the Qwen team’s late-July open-source sprint with a thinking-mode companion landing imminently.

Money, infra & hardware

Tech Startups’ daily funding roundup captured Vanta + LegalOn + Delve plus Hadrian’s $260M defense-manufacturing raise — confirms the date’s investor focus on enterprise AI, compliance and defense automation. via Tech Startups

Quiet corners

Day-two analysis of Trump’s Action Plan and accompanying EOs — CSIS, Foundation for American Innovation, Sidley Austin and others published breakdowns of the 90+ federal policy actions. via CSIS Google DeepMind’s Gemini Deep Think IMO gold story continued circulating.

By the numbers

  • August — Axios’s reported OpenAI GPT-5 launch target
  • $150M / $4.15B / $504M — Vanta Series D / valuation / total funding
  • $50M Series E — LegalOn round (Goldman lead, OpenAI partnership)
  • $32M / $300M / 500+ — Delve round / valuation / customers
  • $260M — Hadrian defense-manufacturing raise (same daily roundup)

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 24 July 2025.