XAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview has claimed the top spot on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard with an Elo score of 1473, surpassing ByteDance's model at 1467. The ranking, which aggregates ove…
The open-text-to-speech (TTS) landscape has shifted dramatically between 2024 and mid-2026, with open-weight models now rivaling proprietary APIs from ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI in quality while o…
Chinese AI labs have progressed from early BERT-era models to trillion-parameter systems like Wu Dao 2.0 (1.75T parameters) and cost-efficient architectures such as DeepSeek V3 (trained for $5.6M), ac…
The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a state-backed entity known as the "Big Fund," is in talks to lead Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's first external funding round at an approximate $…
A comprehensive analysis of 27 organizations and over 70 arXiv papers from 2021 to 2026 reveals that DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, Xiaomi, Ant Group, Meituan, NVIDIA, StepFun, Poolside, Ar…
Shanghai-based AI firm MiniMax has teased its next-generation M3 model, claiming a 15.6x faster decoding speed and 9.7x faster prefill speed over its M2 model when processing 1M-token contexts, driven…
Alibaba engineers have successfully ported Android 16 to run on RISC-V architecture, marking a significant step toward reducing reliance on Arm-based processors. The milestone demonstrates the growing…
Ollama and LM Studio now allow users to run open-weight AI models like Qwen 3, Gemma 3, and DeepSeek-R1 locally on consumer hardware without API keys or monthly fees. The tools support quantized model…
Chinese government agencies have begun requiring top artificial-intelligence professionals at private firms, including Alibaba and DeepSeek, to obtain approval before traveling abroad, according to pe…
China has imposed restrictions on overseas travel for employees of artificial intelligence companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other private firms, according to sources familiar with the matter…
Researchers have developed BODHI, a domain knowledge prompting method that improves automated generation of formal operating system kernel specifications using large language models. The technique, wh…
Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max autonomously optimized a kernel on unfamiliar hardware for 35 hours, making 1,158 tool calls and achieving a 10x speedup over the reference implementation. The model outperformed…
According to the article, product team retrospectives often fail because success criteria are not defined before work begins, leading to post-hoc rationalization rather than genuine evaluation. The au…
Alibaba has publicly acknowledged that it is falling behind competitors in the chipmaking and artificial intelligence sectors. The company admitted to struggling to keep pace with rival AI shops and c…
Companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have released open-source tools and models in the last two years aimed at enabling robots to reason, decide, and act. The open-source movement tha…
Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max model is now available on Vercel AI Gateway, offering capabilities in coding, office workflow automation, and long-horizon autonomous execution. The model features improvements …
Due to Western sanctions limiting access to advanced semiconductors, Russia's Sberbank is seeking to procure Chinese chips to power its GigaChat AI. However, the bank faces significant delays, as it i…
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B dense model outperformed its own 397-billion-parameter MoE predecessor on SWE-bench Verified (77.2% vs. ~76.2%) while running on a single RTX 4090, challenging the prevailing MoE…
Marc Andreessen told a16z's January 2026 LP meeting that the competitive advantage in artificial intelligence no longer comes from the underlying model, but from the infrastructure and applications bu…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent framework that crossed 140,000 GitHub stars and became the most-used agent on OpenRouter, designed for self-improvement and reliability on …