The US government and leading AI developers are considering stronger measures to prevent Chinese companies from using American models to build competing systems through AI distillation, a process that…
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, reporting $1.15 billion in annual bookings and an inference engine that hits 500 tokens per second on DeepSeek-V3.1. The compa…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI (Knowledge Atlas Technology) closed nearly flat at HK$1,645 on Monday, defying a broad market rout that saw rival MiniMax tumble nearly 20%, after co-founder Tang Jie pledged …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI, developer of the GLM-5.2 model, closed nearly flat on Monday at HK$1,645, defying a broad slump that saw rival MiniMax fall almost 20%, after pledging to prioritize advanc…
A developer released the first open-source training kernels for MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, enabling efficient million-token training with sparse attention. The kernel…
Open-weight models have closed the quality gap with frontier systems, making the model itself the least defensible part of an AI business. Founders now build moats through workflows, context, and inte…
Goldman Sachs released a report on Friday analyzing China's AI large language model industry, finding that Chinese models achieve near parity with US rivals at 10-25% of the cost. The bank projects Ch…
A new benchmark measuring the political neutrality of 18 AI models from 12 labs across four regions found that 97 out of 108 measured positions landed left of center, with only xAI's Grok models appro…
Chinese AI companies are using a technique called distillation to copy American AI models, with Anthropic and OpenAI accusing firms like Alibaba's Qwen team of stealing intellectual property. Anthropi…
OpenAI and Anthropic warned that Chinese AI labs, including operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, are using tens of thousands of fake accounts to distill their models…
SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq in a record $26.5 billion share sale to fund high-bandwidth memory production, betting that AI demand will break the semiconductor industry's historic boom-and-bust c…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its sto…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie forgoes his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, as the Chinese AI firm seeks US$2 billion in funding after its stock plunged 80% from its peak. Ya…
American tech companies are increasingly anxious as Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek and Z.ai release competitive models at lower costs, challenging US dominance. Anthropic has accused Chinese rivals of…
Chinese technology companies have raised $17.38 billion through IPOs and secondary share sales in Hong Kong so far in 2026, driven by surging investor demand for artificial intelligence, semiconductor…
Hong Kong stocks fell on Thursday, with the Hang Seng Index down 0.78%, as regional tech volatility offset short covering. Zhipu AI surged over 10% amid easing IPO share unlocking volatility, while Mi…
SambaNova combined four Nvidia H200 GPUs with 16 SN50 RDU chips to achieve 763 tokens per second on MiniMax M2.7 at a 10,000-token context, separating prefill and decode stages to accelerate inference…
OpenCode released data on real-world AI model usage, cache ratios, and costs, showing DeepSeek's v4-flash leading with 8.2T tokens, followed by DeepSeek v4-pro and Zhipu's glm-5.2. The data reveals sh…
A developer explains that multi-model AI applications require more than just access to multiple models; they need comprehensive visibility into reliability across different workflows. The post argues …
MiniMax, a Chinese AI lab, open-sourced M2.7 on April 12, 2026—a 230-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts agent model that actively participated in its own development cycle. During training, M2.7 had…