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 arrived with the numbers it was missing in July: 95 billion active parameters per token out of 2.4 trillion total, a confirmed 1-million-token context window, and API […]
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 model was DeepSeek-R1, and the man behind it is Liang Wenfeng, a former quant trader who built a frontier-grade AI lab on a fraction of the […]
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 performance, and how it compares to DeepSeek V4 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
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.
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 espionage operation against roughly 30 global targets, including major tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies. Unlike previous AI-assisted attacks, the attackers built an automated framework around Claude Code so that […]
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 Kimi K2 family and marks a major step forward in long-context, multi-step reasoning and autonomous tool use. Moonshot has moved fast since then. The Kimi line has advanced through K2.5, K2.6, and K2.7 to the […]
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 1-trillion-parameter large-language model that immediately takes its place among the most complex systems ever deployed and the most powerful AI models. The rollout began quietly inside Qwen Chat and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Soon coming to Fello AI. Only […]
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 build Kimi K2‑0905, introduces a 256,000-token context window, improved coding performance, and retains its permissive modified MIT license. Although early beta access was briefly mentioned on the company’s Discord […]
The open-source AI race just got more interesting. Chinese startup DeepSeek has unveiled DeepSeek-V3.1, its biggest upgrade yet, bringing sharper reasoning, stronger coding skills, and new support for tool-calling and agent workflows. Unlike its earlier release that felt experimental, V3.1 arrives as a serious contender. With a 128K context window, hybrid reasoning modes, and an API that’s dramatically cheaper […]
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 02. From physics simulation to prompt accuracy, Hailuo 02 is winning over creators, developers, and the internet at large. And perhaps the most remarkable part? It’s available to everyone for just $8 a month, compared to Veo’s top-tier […]
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