Moonshot AI's Kimi Agent is a family of products built on the Kimi K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window, and includes Agent Swarm, which ca…
Alibaba launched Wan3.0 on August 24, a video generation API that accepts documents (PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, MD, and webpage URLs) and up to 20 multimodal assets per request, producing 30-second 1080…
Chinese developers including DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and Moonshot's Kimi are releasing increasingly capable open-weight AI models at a fraction of the cost charged by American frontier laboratories,…
XPeng's robotics business raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion, led by IDG Capital with participation from Gaorong Ventures and strategic investments from Tencent and …
Nvidia's upcoming earnings report will test whether the AI rally can regain momentum, as Asian equities drifted lower on Tuesday amid Alibaba's $10.2 billion share sale and a 45% slump in Unitree's st…
A controlled study of three compact open-weight language models under five billion parameters found that no single model dominates on mathematical reasoning, with Qwen3:4b (Alibaba) most accurate on t…
Alibaba's MAI-UI team released Qwen-UI-Agent on August 20, an open-weight GUI agent under Apache 2.0 that outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 on mobile benchmarks and edges it on browser tasks, with weights a…
Alibaba's Wan 3.0 video generation model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway as `alibaba/wan-v3.0-video`, supporting text-to-video, image-to-video, first/last frame conditioning, and reference-bas…
Pliny the Prompter released Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED, an abliterated version of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B model, with V3 scoring 82.33% on MMLU versus 84.46% for the stock model, a 2.12 percentage point dr…
Glassbox, a new browser-based tool by solo developer David Dale, reveals how easily browsers can be fingerprinted, estimating identifiability from 99% in a standard Chrome session to 56% in Tor Browse…
Dogotix, the humanoid robotics unit of XPeng Motors, raised more than $900 million in its initial funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to over $6.3 billion. The company plans to use the fu…
Hugging Face is in early-stage acquisition talks at a valuation of $13 billion or more, with no deal signed, according to TechCrunch and Business Insider. The platform hosts 2.96 million models, 1 mil…
Alibaba's Wan3.0 video generation model is now available in beta, producing videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, PDFs, web pages, and PowerPoint files, doubling the length of its predecesso…
Michael Burry, the investor known for 'The Big Short,' said on X that he sold his entire Alibaba stake and shifted capital to JD.com after Alibaba announced a $10.2 billion stock offering to fund AI p…
China's AI race is shifting from model development to infrastructure and business sustainability, with Alibaba and Tencent pursuing contrasting strategies: Alibaba is rebuilding around AI infrastructu…
In a head-to-head test, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B (running locally on an NVIDIA RTX 5090) analyzed the validity of Apple's US Patent 7,844,915 (the 'pinch-to-zoom' patent) ag…
Alibaba's stock has fallen roughly 40% from its January high after the company reported a 75% plunge in quarterly net income to 10.5 billion yuan and announced a $10.2 billion share sale to fund AI in…
Thomson Reuters spent roughly $40 million over two years to build its own proprietary AI model, Thomson, on Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.5-397B, and says it now outperforms Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, an…
Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, built on Snowdon, a model created by realigning Alibaba's open-source Qwen model, to reduce reliance on Anthropic's Claude and cut co…
Thomson Reuters is launching its own language model, Thomson, built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years, aiming to own its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic. …