Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Open Weights With Caveats
Qwen 3.5 offers a 397B MoE flagship and smaller local models under Apache 2.0, but Alibaba's benchmarks need independent testing.
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Moonshot AI Seeks $10 Billion Valuation Just Weeks After $4.3B Round
Chinese AI startup Moonshot, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is raising again at more than double its December valuation. Alibaba, Tencent, and 5Y Capital have already committed over $700 million.
Alibaba's RynnBrain: Open-Source AI That Teaches Robots to See and Think
Alibaba released RynnBrain, an open-source AI model that gives robots spatial awareness and physical reasoning. It beats Google and Nvidia on 16 benchmarks while running on just 3 billion active parameters.
Five Chinese AI Labs Launch Major Models Before Lunar New Year
GLM-5, Kimi K2.5, Qwen 3.5, Doubao 2.0, and MiniMax M2.2 arrive in the most concentrated wave of Chinese AI releases. Some are open-source. Here's what matters.
DeepSeek's Engram: The Memory Trick That Bypasses GPU Restrictions
China's most innovative AI lab published a technique that lets large language models store knowledge in cheap system RAM instead of expensive GPU memory. It's a direct response to US export controls -- and it works.
GLM-4.7: The $3 Coding Model That Beats Claude on Benchmarks
China's Zhipu AI released an open-weight model that beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 on tool-use benchmarks. It costs $3/month. The Flash version runs on your laptop.