Chinese smartphone makers are integrating AI agents directly into their operating systems, replacing traditional app stores and home screens. ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra runs ByteDance's Doubao AI agent w…
MiniMax's Hailuo 2.3 video model remains its current API offering as of August 3, with pricing at $0.28 for a 768p six-second clip, $0.56 for a 768p ten-second clip, and $0.49 for a 1080p six-second c…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30 seconds of finished audio and video in a single pass from up to 30 reference images, 10 video clips, and 10 audio clips, holding ch…
ByteDance's Seed team shipped Seedance 2.5 on July 31, generating 30 seconds of video with synchronized audio in a single pass, double the length of Seedance 2.0 and triple that of Google's current mo…
AMD's MI355X GPU achieved 48 tokens/sec per dollar running the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 model, outperforming Nvidia's B300 (33 tokens/sec) and B200 (7 tokens/sec), according to benchmarks from Wafer. Th…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates video and audio together, producing clips up to 30 seconds long—three times longer than Google's Gemini Omni Flash. The model accepts …
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, in a leaked 3-hour-44-minute investor meeting transcript, revealed the lab's 'Costco strategy' for achieving AGI: pricing its API so GPU hardware pays for itself in ten…
Nvidia has launched Vera, its first fully-custom CPU, challenging Intel and AMD's dominance in the datacenter CPU market. The chip features 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, and support for up to …
An engineer's practical guide to selecting memory stores for AI agents argues that vector databases are often overkill, citing that 95% of agent time in a university admissions scraper was spent on si…
SWE-rebench's latest leaderboard shows frontier coding models within 2.2 points of each other on resolved rate, with Fable 5 (Anthropic) at 64.5%, Grok 4.5 (xAI) at 63.8%, Opus 5 (Anthropic) at 63.4%,…
LocalAI's 18 custom C and C++ inference engines, including vllm.cpp and depth-anything.cpp, outperform or match upstream Python-based engines while drastically reducing footprint, with vllm.cpp delive…
MiniMax Group released its H3 multimodal video generation model on July 31, capable of producing 2K resolution videos with stereo sound at less than one-third the cost per second of mainstream competi…
ByteDance's AI video app Seedance is partnering with its education app Gauth to launch 'AI Course' on August 4, featuring AI-generated animated lessons for students. Gauth, which has 86 million monthl…
MiniMax launched H3, its newest multimodal video generation model, with open weights and competitive pricing, aiming to challenge closed-source rivals like ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. According to bench…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23, supporting 30-second single-segment generation and up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, while MiniMax's H…
Tesla China has begun rolling out software version 2026.14.13 that integrates ByteDance's Doubao large language model into the Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X, delivering voice-based interaction…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, its latest video-generation model, which can generate a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single run and supports multi-turn extension for longer sequences. The m…
A developer documented how to generate short videos from Claude.ai using a Seedance MCP connector. The connector, based on Ace Data Cloud documentation, exposes ByteDance's Doubao video generation too…
LinkedIn is introducing a new feature this week that lets users flag posts that 'seem like AI slop,' removing them from the feed and privately notifying the poster that their words 'may have come off …
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, now generates about $4bn annually from artificial intelligence, the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, according to the South China Morning Pos…