Daily News - March 31st

What happened in the last 24 hours:

A new model called Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview was released on OpenRouter and it’s currently free to use. Qwen models have been improving very quickly, especially for coding and reasoning tasks, and they are often much cheaper than the big frontier models. Many people are starting to use Qwen models for agents and coding workflows because of the price and performance.

If you want to try it out, this is a good time while it’s free. It works with tools like Cursor, OpenCode, Kilo Code, and anything that supports OpenRouter. Just note that the free versions specifically are known to use prompts and conversations for training, so be careful with sensitive code or data.

https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.6-plus-preview:free

Another interesting thing: Claude Code’s source code reportedly leaked through a map file that was published in their npm registry. The repository is already on GitHub if you want to look through it:

https://github.com/instructkr/claude-code

It’s actually a rare chance to look under the hood and see how a tool like Claude Code is built and structured.

Ollama also announced MLX support, Apple’s machine learning framework for Apple Silicon. This means running local models on Apple Silicon machines like MacBooks and Mac Minis, and setups like OpenClaw, should become faster and more efficient. Local AI on personal machines is improving very quickly, and it’s becoming more realistic to run useful local models locally instead of always using servers.

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx

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