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Qwen 4 Release Date: Is It Out, and Did Alibaba Really Say “Next Week”?

Qwen 4 is not out yet. As of 5 November 2026 there is no Qwen 4 model card, download, API name or price. The only thing Alibaba has put in writing is that Qwen 4…

DeepSeek V5 Release Date: What We Know, and Why V4.1 Pro Comes First

DeepSeek V5 is not out, and DeepSeek has not announced it. The newest DeepSeek release is DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update shipped on 17 October 2026, and the…

Kimi vs DeepSeek: Which Chinese AI Should You Use?

Kimi vs DeepSeek is now a clear trade. On the new Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 46 and DeepSeek’s best model scores…

Qwen vs ChatGPT: Which One Should You Actually Use?

Qwen vs ChatGPT is closer than most comparisons admit. Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max scores 45.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against 47.6 for GPT-6 Sol…

Best Chinese AI Models in 2026: Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM and MiMo Ranked

The best Chinese AI model in October 2026 is not DeepSeek. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro, released on 23 October, scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…

Qwen Image Generator: Is It Free, Which Model Is It, and Can Your Mac Run It?

Alibaba's Qwen image generator is two models, not one. Qwen-Image-3.0 runs in Qwen Chat and on Alibaba's paid API, and Qwen-Image-2.1, released on 20 September…

Xiaomi MiMo Explained: What V2.6 Is, What It Costs, and How to Use It

Xiaomi MiMo is Xiaomi’s family of open-weight AI models, and on 21 September 2026 it took the top spot among open models. The flagship, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, is a…

DeepSeek vs Grok: Cost, Limits and What Each One Refuses

DeepSeek is far cheaper and better at structured reasoning. Grok costs more and answers far more questions. The real difference is not benchmarks, it is what each…

Tencent Hy4 Preview: The Biggest Apache 2.0 Model Yet, and What It Actually Scores

Tencent released Hy4 preview on August 28, 2026 and open-sourced it the same day, 770 billion parameters under Apache 2.0. That makes it the largest permissively…

GLM 5.3 Flash: Z.ai Ships Ox Alpha as a 320B Open Model

Z.ai released GLM 5.3 Flash on August 26, 2026, and confirmed it is the stealth model that had been running on OpenRouter as Ox Alpha. It is a 320B model with 18B…

Qwen 3.8: Alibaba’s 2.4T Model Tested Against the Fable 5 Claim

Qwen 3.8 is no longer a preview with a marketing claim attached to it. Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on August 3, 2026, and this time the model…

Who Is Liang Wenfeng? The DeepSeek Founder Who Shook the AI World

In January 2025, a single AI model from a little-known Chinese startup erased more than $1 trillion in market value from US tech stocks in one trading day. The…

Baidu’s ERNIE 5.1 Just Released

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 on May 8, 2026, hitting #4 on LMArena Search using only 6% of normal pre-training cost. We cover benchmarks, architecture, agentic…

MiniMax M2.5: A New Chinese Open-Source Model That Claims to Beat Claude & GPT at Coding

MiniMax M2.5 scores 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified, runs at 100 tokens/sec, and costs $1/hour. Here’s what we know — and what’s still unverified.

Hackers Just Used Claude Code AI To Autonomously Hack 30 Global Targets

In September 2025, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group reportedly used Claude Code (an AI programming assistant created by Anthropic) to carry out a large-scale…

New Chinese Model Kimi K2 Thinking Ranks #1 in Multiple Benchmarks

On November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, its most advanced open-source model yet. It’s the first reasoning-focused variant in the…

Qwen 3 Max AI: All You Need to Know About Alibaba’s 1-Trillion Parameter LLM

Alibaba’s AI stack just crossed a symbolic frontier. On September 5 2025, the company’s cloud division unveiled Qwen-3-Max-Preview (Instruct), a…

China’s Moonshot AI Dropped Kimi K2 (0905) – The Open-Source Model Crushing the Competition

Moonshot AI, Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is rolling out an upgraded version of its open‑weight open-source large language model, Kimi K2. The new…

DeepSeek V3.1 je tady – nejpokročilejší open source AI z Číny zatím

Závod open source AI se právě stal zajímavějším. Čínský startup DeepSeek představil DeepSeek-V3.1, svůj dosud největší upgrade, který přináší ostřejší uvažování…

This Chinese AI Video Model Beats Google Veo 3 in Every Way — For Just $8/Month

A small Chinese startup has just released a text-to-video model that’s beating Google’s much-hyped Veo 3 across nearly every major benchmark. Meet MiniMax’s Hailuo…

Latest DeepSeek Update Called R1-0528 Is Matching OpenAI’s o3 & Gemini 2.5 Pro

In late May 2025, Chinese startup DeepSeek quietly rolled out R1-0528, a beefed-up version of its open-source R1 reasoning model. The upgrade boosts parameter count…

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI is Here to Challenge Silicon Valley – And It’s SCARY Good.

Just when you thought Silicon Valley had the AI game locked down, Alibaba has unleashed Qwen3, a new generation of AI models so powerful they’re making US tech…

ROBOT RAMPAGE: Did a Chinese AI Humanoid Just ATTACK Its Creators?!

The internet is ablaze with footage of what looks like a cutting-edge AI robot going completely berserk, flailing wildly and seemingly lunging at terrified…

Baidu’s New ERNIE 4.5 & X1 – A Free AI That Is Better Than GPT-4.5 & Costs Pennies!

Baidu has since released ERNIE 5.1 — see our full breakdown for the latest. Baidu just dropped two powerful AI models—ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1—and made them…

Kimi AI 1.5: Another New Chinese AI Model Outpacing Both ChatGPT & DeepSeek

Artificial intelligence innovation is moving fast, and a new player has just entered the arena. Kimi AI 1.5, developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot AI, is…

Is DeepSeek Safe to Use For US & EU Citizens? All The Facts You Need to Know! [UPDATED]

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence platform, has skyrocketed in popularity, even topping the US App Store charts as the most downloaded app. With its…