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Saudi HUMAIN-M3 Builds on MiniMax M3 as Nations Hunt Open-Weight AI Bases

PIF-backed HUMAIN launched an Arabic frontier model on MiniMax's open MoE stack—showing how sovereign AI projects are turning Chinese open weights into national starting points. HUMAIN-M3 keeps M3's ...
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Global AI Compute Infrastructure Could Top $4 Trillion by 2028, Wuxi Summit Hears

At Wuxi's integrated-circuit innovation conference, industry executives projected global new data-center infrastructure investment will exceed $4 trillion by 2028, with semiconductor spending over ...
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China's Floatboat Harness Beats Claude Opus 4.8 on All Five Benchmarks While Running on the Cheapest Model on the Market

AOE Tech Labs' Floatboat team ran a single-variable Harness benchmark experiment on August 7. With DeepSeek-V4-Flash as the model base and only the execution Harness swapped, the same 0.14-dollar ...
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Former Qwen Tech Chief Lin Junyang Launches Pragmatik Labs with a Two-Billion-Dollar Valuation — and Pivots from Foundation Models to Agents

Lin Junyang, the former Alibaba Qwen technical lead and one of the youngest P10-level engineers at the company, has founded Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai with a 2 billion dollar angel-round valuation.
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Lightelligence's Photonic-Computing Long March: Technology Shines, Business Still Uncertain

Lightelligence set a 383.62% first-day pop on the Hong Kong Exchange in April. The pioneer is shifting focus from 'computing with light' to 'connecting with light', a pragmatic pivot that still faces ...
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WAIC Observation: Huawei Enters Embodied AI With CloudRobo Platform, Can It Repeat the SERES Miracle of Smart Car Success?

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Huawei Cloud launches CloudRobo, a full-stack embodied AI development platform covering data production, model development, simulation, and robot ...
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MiniMax H3 Open-Sourced: H3-Omni-Transformer With 33B Parameters Benchmarks Against Seedance 2.0 at One-Third API Price, Runs Locally on Two RTX 5090 Cards

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? MiniMax releases H3-Base weights on HuggingFace, with 33B dense single-stream Omni-Transformer, 16x spatial and 4x temporal compression VAE, and ...
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GLM-5.3 Arrives Hours After Tang Jie's 'sooooooon' — Zhipu's Coding and Security Model Doubles SWE-Marathon, Tops CyberGym

Three days after a user teased Zhipu AI chief scientist Tang Jie on X about GLM-5.3, he replied 'sooooooon', and hours later the model was live. Focused solely on coding and security, GLM-5.3 more ...
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ByteDance's Doubao 2.1 Pro Crosses Production Threshold, Seedance 2.5 Video Model Coming July

ByteDance's Volcano Engine has unveiled its latest AI model lineup at the FORCE conference, headlined by the Doubao 2.1 Pro model which has crossed what the company calls the "production-level ...
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China's 'Thinking Machines': VUI Labs' Luna-TTS Tops the Global TTS Arena, Beating ElevenLabs and MiniMax

Chinese voice AI startup VUI Labs has taken its Luna-TTS model to number one on Hugging Face's TTS Arena, beating ElevenLabs, MiniMax, and Cartesia, and to third place on Artificial Analysis' Speech ...
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Zhipu AI Computing Ambitions Surface: 1GW Data Center, Hundreds of Millions in Infrastructure Acquisition, and Self-Developed Chip Plans Signal Nvidia Independence Push

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Zhipu AI builds 1GW data center with all domestic chips, acquires compiler startup Zhongke Jiahe, and explores custom AI chip development, ...
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CXMT LPDDR6 Hits Key Breakthrough: Research Validation Nearing Completion as ChangXin Memory Technologies Closes In on Mass Production of 12,800 Mbps Mobile DRAM

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? CXMT LPDDR6 development validation nearing completion, 12,800 Mbps design rate, 16Gb density, positioning for H2 2026 mass production against SK ...