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Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-Plus, claimed as China's strongest programming model. Its performance closely approaches Anthropic's Claude on coding benchmarks. This positions domestic LLMs in the top competitive tier.
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Max-Preview has debuted on LMArena, topping the rankings among global AI models. It outperforms both international leaders and domestic competitors, signaling strong performance gains.
Moonshot AI's Kimi secured over $700M in a new round led by Alibaba, Tencent, and others, just over a month after a $500M raise. Valuation now at $10-12B, doubling previously. Total recent funding exceeds $1.2B, the highest in the LLM sector last year.
Tencent's Hunyuan 3 has achieved high benchmark scores, with search capabilities now matching GPT-5.5 standards. The update also reports a 50% reduction in hallucination rates.
Alibaba has launched the Qwen 3.7 Max preview, marking a significant milestone in their model development. The release demonstrates industry-leading capabilities in both text and vision domains.
Tencent's Hunyuan model has been rebuilt in under three months, with its Hy3 preview consistently topping OpenRouter's usage charts. The company has also launched dozens of general and vertical AI agents this year.
DeepSeek V4 launched a week ago with three price cuts and a visual model, completing its lineup. However, it lacks the technical edge of predecessor R1 and trails US leaders on AI leaderboards. A US researcher concludes it's 7 months behind top models like GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
DeepSeek announced a major API price adjustment on April 26. All API input cache hit prices dropped to one-tenth of launch prices. V4-Pro adds a limited-time 2.5x discount, reaching 0.025 RMB per million tokens.
Xiaomi has launched the public beta for its most advanced AI model series, MiMo-V2.5. The flagship model rivals top global AI systems in handling complex tasks, marking a significant step in Xiaomi's AI development.
K2.6 represents Yang Zhilin's first roadshow event. The update signals major changes to the Kimi model. This milestone from Moonshot AI hints at enhanced capabilities.