Aaronjmars has released Unirig-Ai, an AI model on Replicate that automatically generates skeletal rigs and skinning weights for 3D models across humans, animals, and objects. Based on SIGGRAPH'25 UniR…
Shanghai AI Lab published a technical paper on August 13 detailing Intern-S2-Preview-397B, an open 397-billion-parameter scientific-agent model that combines visual pretraining, tool use, and long-hor…
Z.ai, the Tsinghua-founded AI company led by chairman Liu Debing and CEO Zhang Peng, is offering 100 million free GLM-5.3 tokens to 50,000 new users through August 23 at 6 p.m. Pacific, with a maximum…
Shaowei Liu is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research's Fundamental Generative AI Research Group, where he focuses on video generation and dynamic world modeling. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Scie…
Z.ai opened API access to GLM-5.3 on August 18th, charging $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, with the model featuring forced reasoning and improved coding and cyberse…
Shengshu Technology, the Alibaba-backed generative AI startup behind the Vidu video generation tool, is considering a Hong Kong IPO targeting at least $500 million in proceeds. Founded in March 2023 w…
A new benchmark called AGENTIF, developed by researchers at Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI, reveals that current advanced AI models achieve less than 30% perfect instruction following on complex, re…
MiniMax, the generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, is pitching its H3 video model as a generator for animated game sprites, claiming it can maintain consistent character motion across frames wh…
AGI Bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun technology district offers free DeepSeek-powered coding tokens to customers, blending AI with nightlife, powered by two Nvidia DGX Spark machines. Owner Song De, an i…
AGI Bar, a Beijing bar opened by independent AI developer Song De in the Zhongguancun tech hub, offers free DeepSeek tokens with every pint, powered by two Nvidia DGX Spark computers, and serves a sig…
Robotera, a Beijing-based humanoid robotics company founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University, is reportedly considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1 billion, according to sourc…
Tang Jie, co-founder of Zhipu AI and professor at Tsinghua University, argues in Qiushi that tokens should become the foundational unit for measuring the intelligent economy, with development hinging …
Z.ai, the Beijing artificial-intelligence developer co-founded by Zhang Peng, Tang Jie and Liu Debing, published an August 14 research post presenting GLM-5.3 as a post-training update for coding agen…
On July 1, 2026, developer JustVugg released Colibri, a 14,700-line pure-C inference engine that runs GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, on 25GB of RAM with no GPU, using an LR…
China's Meteorological Administration deployed AI weather models from Huawei and Alibaba alongside traditional physics-based systems during Typhoon Dolphin, marking a major real-world test for AI-driv…
Researchers at Tsinghua University, Graz University of Technology, and the National Research Council in Italy have developed an AI framework inspired by cognitive science that uses cognitive maps to e…
MIT CSAIL and Tsinghua University researchers developed GeoPT, an AI pre-training method that learns physics from 1.3 million synthetic particle interactions, cutting labeled data needs by 60% and ach…
On June 13, 2026, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI released GLM 5.2, a 753B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts open-weight model with 40B active parameters and a 1-million-token context window, under the MIT lic…
Chinese researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University have developed Light Society, a framework that simulates societies of over one bil…
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, launched its open-weight H3 video-generation model on July 31 and claims it is the highest-ranked open-weight video model on both Arena and Artificial Analysis. However…