U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions on Chinese AI labs over alleged intellectual property theft, saying the U.S. has the ability to sanction overseas models that steal from Amer…
Morph offers the cheapest API pricing for Qwen3.6 27B at $0.29 per million input tokens, according to live provider data refreshed about one hour ago via OpenRouter. The 27-billion-parameter model, re…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight coding model that matches or exceeds larger rivals on agentic coding benchmarks and runs on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max and Moonshot's Kimi K3, with 2.4 trillion and 2.8 trillion parameters respectively, are prompting enterprise executives to reconsider Chinese AI models for specific applications …
Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 Max and Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 are prompting enterprise IT executives to reconsider Chinese AI models for limited applications, according to…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that Chinese AI firms found to have copied American AI technology could face US sanctions, as the Trump administration prepares to examine Chinese AI models for…
Alibaba's Qwen team on July 19 previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on overall quality while costing ro…
Apple has endorsed Alibaba's AI capabilities, positioning the Chinese tech giant as a leading AI play in China. The endorsement highlights Alibaba's advanced AI models and infrastructure, potentially …
A ranking of the nine best open-weight large language models in 2026 finds Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI tied with Claude Opus 4.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, though its weights are not …
Alibaba DAMO Academy released RynnBrain 1.1, a 122B-parameter embodied foundation model that beats closed-source models on three spatial reasoning leaderboards. Nvidia open-sourced Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B…
China's Ministry of Commerce is drafting AI export controls that restrict the transfer of model weights, training pipelines, and research talent to foreign entities, with three companies already recei…
Unverified claims circulating on social media assert that the US government has detected watermarks from American AI models embedded within Chinese AI systems, suggesting potential intellectual proper…
Europac chief economist Peter Schiff warned that AI stocks, not AI itself, are a bubble, citing SpaceX stock falling 46% from its peak to $120 per share. Schiff argued that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model…
Alibaba has revealed Qwen 3.8, its latest large language model, claiming it is among the most powerful but providing no real data to support the assertion, according to The New Stack.…
Chinese AI companies Moonshot AI and Alibaba unveiled models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 last week that they say compete with OpenAI and Anthropic's best systems, triggering market wobbles and declarations of…
White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks accused top AI labs of lobbying Washington to ban open-source rivals they cannot beat on merit, writing on X that 'the leading closed labs, already a duopoly…
China's first regulations on AI companion services took effect July 15, banning platforms from offering virtual partners or relatives to minors. The rules, jointly issued by the Cyberspace Administrat…
The KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB) has jumped nearly 13% in July, leading thematic ETFs, driven by Alibaba's (BABA) 27% monthly gain after China approved Apple Intelligence for iPhones, wit…
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a ban on Chinese AI models such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen, according to Axios. The move could strengthen Beijing's hand by alienati…
A developer reports that a16z's Martin Casado stated there's an 80% chance any given startup is using Chinese models in production, not just experimenting. The post argues that China's open-weights st…