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11 stories in the last two weeks

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post ·

Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA

The firm's chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads

Reuters ·

At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an "injustice"

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China's premier tech conference …

Jay Peters / The Verge ·

Roblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models

It's the latest push into AI from Roblox, which has embraced the technology. … Roblox is about to let people make games …

Jordan Novet / CNBC ·

Fireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue

The cost of the latest artificial intelligence models is increasingly breeding anxiety among finance executives …

TechCrunch ·

Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures

Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures …

Sam Learner / Financial Times ·

AI coding tool users are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers. If you are reading the digital version …

Juro Osawa / The Information ·

MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently …

Sam Witteveen / VentureBeat ·

Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April

For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases …

Reuters ·

Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details

China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …

Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark …

Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·

OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more

Amid concerns about AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its "Patch the Planet" …

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