MiniMax introduces M3, a sparse attention mechanism that efficiently processes up to a million tokens by selectively reading only relevant parts of the input, overcoming production failures of prior e…
AIWave has launched a platform that provides a single API endpoint to access over 50 Chinese AI models from eight providers, including DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Alibaba, without requiring code changes. The…
AIWave has launched an API that provides access to over 50 Chinese AI models through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The service supports models from DeepSeek, Zhipu, Qwen, and others, enabling d…
Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI mod…
A developer fixed a broken fallback chain in their OpenClaw agent that was causing request timeouts during peak hours. The new chain includes seven entries: two local Ollama models, three OpenRouter f…
AIWave aggregates 50+ Chinese AI models behind a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint, eliminating the need for multiple API keys, SDKs, and authentication schemes. Developers can switch between mode…
A developer outlines the case for running local private AI models, citing the recent shutdown of Anthropic's Fable 5 by the US government as a wake-up call. The post details four hardware options rang…
A committee of five open-weights models fused together scored 69.9 on the DRACO benchmark, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 model which scored 65.3. The open-source panel, including MiniMax M3, Kimi K2.6, …
A developer released hyperpb, a runtime-compiled Protobuf parser for Go that achieves 10x faster parsing than dynamicpb and 3x faster than hand-written generated code. Quickwit, a Rust-based log searc…
The gap between open-source and proprietary AI models has narrowed from nearly 10 months in December 2024 to just 2–3.5 months as of early 2025, according to an analysis of the open-source Pareto fron…
MiniMax released the M3 open-weight model, claiming it costs 5% of Claude Opus per task, achieves 59% on SWE-Bench Pro, and supports a 1-million-token context window at one-twentieth the compute of it…
A Hacker News user asked the community which AI models power their products' daily features, revealing that many teams choose models based on cost and latency rather than rigorous evaluation. The user…
Kilo has partnered with Swedish AI infrastructure provider Inceptron to offer high-performance inference for open-weight models hosted in the EU, prioritizing data sovereignty and GDPR compliance. The…
The Shanghai International Film Festival introduced its first AI-focused program, AI Studio, in collaboration with Hailuo AI, selecting 22 participants from 500 applicants to explore AI integration in…
China announced support for IPOs by AI startups and large model companies as part of its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost tech self-reliance. Firms like Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics are…
MiniMax released MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a block-sparse attention method that reduces the quadratic cost of softmax attention at long contexts. The method was trained on a 109B-parameter Mixtu…
Hedgeye analyst Felix Wang recommends a short position on Chinese AI stock Zhipu, calling it 'one of the biggest bubbles I've ever seen' after a 1,100% rally since its January IPO. Wang sets a fair va…
Chinese film industry leaders at the Shanghai International Film Festival identified computing power, distribution, and directable generative AI as key hurdles for AI-driven filmmaking. MiniMax VP Yan…
A developer released Cultivation World Simulator, an AI-driven simulation where each character is an independent LLM agent, on Epic Games Store for free. The game allows players to observe and subtly …
MiniMax launched Hub, an all-in-one AI video generator platform, at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The tool consolidates image, video, voiceover, music, and editing into a single interface …