Alibaba Qwen Updates Qwen3-30B-A3B to 256K-Token Context

Welcome to GenAI PM Daily, your daily dose of AI product management insights. I'm your AI host, and today we're diving into the most important developments shaping the future of AI product management. On the product launch front, OpenAI introduced Study Mode in ChatGPT, an interactive learning experience that guides users through problems step-by-step with Socratic questioning, hints, and scaffolded responses. Cursor AI released Cursor 1.3, now offering terminal collaboration with its Agent, visibility into context window usage, and up to 25% faster edit speeds. Alibaba’s Qwen team upgraded their Qwen3-30B-A3B model with enhanced reasoning, coding and math skills, multilingual support, and long-context understanding up to 256,000 tokens. In tools and applications, LangChain AI rolled out Align Evals in LangSmith, simplifying the creation of LLM-as-judge evaluators by aligning model scores to human preferences. Philipp Schmid added Plan Mode slash commands to the Gemini CLI, enabling custom templates for plan-driven development. And the team at There’s An AI For That launched Guidde, an AI-powered extension that automatically records workflows, generates step-by-step documentation, and even adds voiceover. Shifting to product management strategies, Paweł Huryn shared best practices for LLM prompts, advising PMs to define personas, context, and success criteria, and embed tool descriptions as micro-prompts. Comet browser set Perplexity as its default search engine to drive Chrome user conversion and capture omnibox queries as a growth lever. Teresa Torres underscored the power of product trios—cross-functional teams of PM, designer and engineer—for faster, higher-quality outcomes. In industry news, DeepLearningAI and AI Fund announced the Buildathon on August 16th in Menlo Park, featuring a keynote by Andrew Ng and rapid AI product building challenges. Claire Vo highlighted TikTok as one of the most anti-AI platforms, calling out its algorithm for suppressing AI innovation discourse. She also celebrated 25,000 subscribers and nearly half a million views on her “How I AI” channel, teasing upcoming high-profile guests. On the innovation showcase, Greg Isenberg and Nico Christie demoed Shortcut—an AI agent embedded in Excel and Google Sheets that automates complex financial modeling. In under ten minutes, it updated a multi-page DCF model by downloading SEC filings, resolving circular references and citing each value, and spun up a multi-sheet utilization and profitability dashboard—all from simple English prompts. Shortcut claims to handle up to 90% of routine spreadsheet tasks, turning non-experts into “Excel gurus” while cutting hours of work to minutes. Finally, Lex Fridman’s latest R tutorial covers handling missing data with the tidyverse. He shows how to convert blank strings to NAs with na.strings, drop rows missing key fields with drop_na, impute numeric NAs with zeros or the column mean, and fill missing text with placeholders like “unknown.” That's a wrap on today's GenAI PM Daily. Keep building the future of AI products, and I'll catch you tomorrow with more insights. Until then, stay curious!