Tag: china

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. Kimi K2 Thinking immediately made headlines for its performance: it set new state-of-the-art scores on several open benchmarks, including Humanity’s Last […]

Alibaba’s Qwen team just unveiled Qwen3‑Next, a new model design aimed at handling much longer inputs while cutting compute costs. The headline claim: an 80‑billion‑parameter model that activates only ~3B parameters per token, thanks to a structured “mixture‑of‑experts” setup. You can read the official explainer on the Qwen blog and see the released model cards on Hugging Face and the NVIDIA API […]

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 […]

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 from 671 billion to 685 billion, adds a lightweight distilled variant, and publishes all weights, training recipes and docs under an MIT license on GitHub and Hugging Face. Under the […]

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 giants sweat. This isn’t just another AI; it’s a statement – a declaration that China is not just catching up, but is ready to lead the AI […]

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 engineers. Is this the moment we all feared? Are the machines finally fighting back, or is there a more innocent explanation for this metallic meltdown? Buckle up, because the truth might […]

Baidu just dropped two powerful AI models—ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1—and made them completely free on its ERNIE Bot platform. This move is shaking things up, directly challenging giants like OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek by putting advanced AI into everyone’s hands, not just big companies with deep pockets. By opening these models to the public, Baidu‘s clearly […]