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…
Ollama, a tool for running large language models locally, initially impresses with ease of use but quickly reveals critical limitations for production use, according to a user account. The tool hides …
China's Ministry of Commerce met with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai on July 7 to discuss restricting foreign access to AI models Qwen, Doubao and GLM-5.2, which now account for a third of global AI usag…
China's release of competitive open-source AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3, DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM signals that the U.S. is losing its AI edge, according to Alberto Romero of The Algorithmic Bridge…
A developer built Synapse, an AI memory agent with intentional forgetting, for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud. The system uses decay math, contradiction detection, and consolidation to…
Imbue's Bouncer app now offers on-device AI text and image detection using a LoRA adapter on Gemma 4 E2B, achieving 99.8% accuracy on human vs. AI-generated text classification. The feature, called "R…
The U.S. should pass a law making data collection for training models fair use and barring terms of service that forbid distillation, argues Ben Thompson on Stratechery. He also suggests Alibaba's rel…
China banned customizable AI companion apps on July 15, 2026, under regulations jointly issued by five government departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, forcing ByteDance, Aliba…
XAI's open-source terminal AI coding agent grok now supports custom model endpoints, allowing users to run models like GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Kimi K2 via Ollama Cloud or any OpenAI-compatible p…
A new MLIR-based compilation method for large language models, developed by researchers and implemented in the TPU-MLIR compiler and LLM-TPU deployment project, addresses challenges in importing train…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model, on July 19th, claiming it trails only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems, but withheld technical details such a…
Alibaba is launching Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that it claims is one of the most powerful available, second only to Fable 5. The Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is already available o…
China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to remove personalized companion agents fro…
Researchers have developed a method to fingerprint large language models (LLMs) using just one output token per query, enabling verification of model identity in opaque serving chains. Testing 165 mod…
A developer deleted a line from their bio boasting about running hand-built inference engines for open-source models like Qwen and DeepSeek, realizing it was a 'demo' rather than a true flagship. The …
A developer running a small training platform found that a bug in the evaluation harness, not the models, was preventing five open-source models from passing a 54-task exam. The same pattern repeated …
A team of developers built Memoria, a personal AI with human-like memory that remembers, forgets, and evolves over time, for the Qwen Cloud Hackathon. The system uses a three-tier memory architecture …
Alibaba's chip design unit T-Head open-sourced SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu AI chips, at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday, aiming to lower migration barriers for develop…
A developer outlines a three-layer testing approach—syntax, schema, and semantic validity—for ensuring reliable structured outputs across multiple AI models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qw…