Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi, co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left the University of California, Berkeley to lead a new AI-driven materials research lab at Tsinghua University in Chin…
Ten scientists have left the US and UK for China in 2026, led by Nobel chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi, who moved to Tsinghua University. The exodus is driven by US federal funding cuts, including thous…
Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating materials discovery. Yaghi, who won the Nobel…
Zhipu AI raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong placement, but the new shares represent only a 4.2% increase in total capital and most remain locked up, limiting the impact on free float. The Beijing-based …
A 44-author robotics group led by Tianxing Chen released RoboDojo, an open benchmark for testing generalist robot manipulation policies across simulation and physical robots, evaluating 30 policies an…
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, citing cuts to …
Tencent's Hunyuan-3 and Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 are competing open-weight models for AI agents, with Hunyuan-3 offering a 256K-token context window and MoE architecture, while GLM 5.2 emphasizes tool-use a…
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI is seeking to raise approximately $4 billion through a secondary share sale in Hong Kong, following a stock surge of nearly 1,500% since its January IPO. The Tsinghua Unive…
ModelBest and Tsinghua University released MiniCPM-5, a 1-billion-parameter on-device AI model with a 128K context window and native tool-use capabilities, designed for agentic workflows on phones and…
Nobel-winning materials scientist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead an AI-driven research center focused on developing materials to address …
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Meituan introduced U-Mind, a unified framework for real-time multimodal interaction that enables a large language model to reason across text, speech, and moti…
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Z.ai have proposed IndexCache, a method to reduce the computational cost of DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) in GLM-5.2. IndexCache exploits the observation tha…
ZhipuAI released GLM 5.2, an open-weight large language model with a 1-million-token context window and MIT license, which outperforms GPT-4.5 on design and coding benchmarks. The model offers frontie…
Chinese chipmaker Basic Semiconductor is moving forward with an IPO in Hong Kong, betting on silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors to address the power demands of AI-driven data centers. The company jo…
Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI, under its global brand Z.AI, launched the open-weight GLM-5.2 model with up to 753 billion parameters, rivaling top closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI at roughly one-tent…
Developers can now run Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 model inside Anthropic's Claude Code coding environment by routing API calls through OpenRouter, using the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL environment variable to point to…
Zhipu AI released GLM 5.2, a 744B parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model that rivals Claude Opus in coding and visual design quality at lower inference cost. The model's MoE architecture activ…
Zhipu AI released GLM 5.2, a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts open-weight model that outperforms Claude Opus on visual design tasks at lower cost. The model features a longer context window, i…
Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 coding model can be used as a cost-effective backend for AI agents via OpenRouter, offering strong code generation and reasoning at 10-20% of the cost of Claude Sonnet or GPT-4o. Th…
Zhipu AI released GLM 5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight language model with an MIT license, achieving coding benchmark scores that rival Claude Fable 5 at a fraction of the API cost. The model'…