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Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni beats Gemini in multimodal

Alibaba released Qwen3.5-Omni, a multimodal model surpassing Gemini-3.1 Pro in capabilities. Input pricing is under 0.8 yuan per million tokens, roughly 1/10th of Gemini-3.1 Pro's cost.

量子位 · 186d ago

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Chinese OCR tops GitHub, beats PaddleOCR

A Chinese open-source OCR project has become the global leader, amassing over 73,300 stars on GitHub. It has surpassed PaddleOCR, which dominated rankings for years attributed to Google influence.

量子位 · 186d ago

Bridging AI Gap with Value Assessment System

Introduces a framework to precisely capture AI's unique value while aligning with business strategies. It provides dynamic guidance across the full lifecycle of AI applications.

钛媒体 · 186d ago

Biren Tech Revenue Triples on AI Demand

Shanghai Biren Technology Co.’s annual revenue more than tripled year-over-year. The surge is fueled by China's booming demand for artificial intelligence chips.

Bloomberg Technology · 186d ago

Fiber Prices Surge 100%+ on AI Demand

Fiber optic tender prices rose over 100% in 4 months, e.g., Heilongjiang Telecom G.652.D 24-core at 155.7元/km (+178%). Driven by AI data centers needing 5-10x more interconnections, exports, and new infra.

虎嗅 · 186d ago

Zhongji Innolight Eyes 10B+ Profit in 2025

Optical module leader Zhongji Innolight forecasts over 10 billion RMB net profit in 2025. AI demand explosion drives record revenue and profits.

钛媒体 · 186d ago

Xiaomi, Alibaba Escalate AI Talent Hunt

Xiaomi and Alibaba have initiated spring recruitment drives targeting AI talent amid intense global competition. The tech giants aim to transform into AI-first companies amid challenges in their core smartphone and e-commerce businesses.

SCMP Technology · 186d ago

ScaleOps Raises $130M for AI Infra Efficiency

ScaleOps has raised $130M to address GPU shortages and escalating AI cloud costs. The funding enables real-time automation of infrastructure.

TechCrunch AI · 186d ago

Open Source

YouTube Scraper for RAG Dataset Building

CLI tool pulls YouTube channel videos, extracts messy transcripts, cleans and chunks them for RAG embeddings. Built for coffee brewing app dataset from experts like James Hoffmann.

Reddit r/MachineLearning · 186d ago

Video

AI Fruit Dating Show Viral on TikTok

TikTok account @ai.cinema021 launched AI-generated short drama 'Fruit Love Island' featuring anthropomorphic fruits in a Love Island-style dating show, gaining 3M+ followers in 9 days with 10-20M views per video. It compresses proven reality TV formats into 1-min clips, outperforming Taylor Swift's views.

虎嗅 · 187d ago

Coding

Qwen-Code v0.14.0-preview.2 Released

Qwen-code has released version v0.14.0-preview.2 on GitHub. The full changelog details changes from v0.13.2 to this preview.

Qwen (GitHub Releases: qwen-code) · 187d ago

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Kimi's Revival: K2.5 Beats Expectations

After 2025 struggles, Kimi launches K2 agentic model in July 2025 and K2.5 2.5T multimodal in 2026. Attention Residuals paper challenges Transformer foundations, earns Karpathy praise.

虎嗅 · 187d ago

Applications

Delayed Film Revived via AI Face Swap

Chinese film 'Honey's Needle' (formerly 'No Other Love'), delayed 10 years due to actor scandals, released after AI face swap replacing lead actor with Geng Le and director credit removal. Adapted from German novel, it follows a woman's obsessive murders for love.

虎嗅 · 187d ago

Apple's 50th Anniversary Retrospective

Marking 50 years since founding on April 1, 1976, The Verge's package reviews Apple's impact on tech and culture. It covers product histories, Jobs eras, antitrust battles, and recent reviews like Apple Intelligence and Vision Pro.

The Verge · 187d ago

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Claude's Unique Style Unreplicable?

Post questions why Claude's distinct conversational style and 'vibes' can't be replicated in models like Qwen3.5 27B despite identical prompts. Suspects architecture or massive scale (>200B) differences, notes failures in formatting and response length.

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 187d ago

Rebellions Raises $400M for Global AI Expansion

SK Telecom-backed AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400 million in a pre-IPO funding round. The investment supports global expansion of its rack-scale compute platform for enterprises and sovereign clouds.

The Register - AI/ML · 187d ago

Rebellions Raises $400M at $2.3B Pre-IPO

AI chip startup Rebellions has secured $400 million in a pre-IPO funding round at a $2.3 billion valuation. The company specializes in designing chips for AI inference and plans to go public later this year.

TechCrunch AI · 187d ago

Tianshu Zhixin 2025 Revenue Surges 91.6%

Tianshu Zhixin released its first post-IPO 2025 annual report with revenue of 10.34 billion CNY, up 91.6%. Gross profit reached 5.58 billion CNY, growing 110.5% faster than revenue.

36氪 · 187d ago

Mistral AI Raises $830M for Paris Data Center

Mistral AI has secured $830 million in debt financing to construct a data center near Paris. The facility is targeted to become operational by Q2 2026.

TechCrunch AI · 187d ago

Applications

Chery QQ3 EV Launches from 58,900 Yuan

Chery QQ3 EV pure electric mini car launched with 4 models at limited-time prices of 5.89-7.89万元. It features AI Lingxi smart cockpit with Snapdragon 8155 chip, 15.6-inch screen, and Carmind agent for voice interaction.

IT之家 · 187d ago

Coding

Qodo Raises $70M for AI Code Verification

Qodo has raised $70 million to build code verification tools as AI-generated code proliferates in software development. The startup focuses on ensuring AI-produced code reliability and functionality.

TechCrunch AI · 187d ago

Research

Import AI 451: Superintelligence, Google Minds, Robot Drummer

Import AI issue 451 covers political superintelligence, Google's 'society of minds' architecture, and a robot drummer demonstration. It poses a rhetorical question on reversing AI advancements.

Import AI · 187d ago

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Research

Moravec Paradox: AI Struggles with Easy Tasks

Moravec's Paradox highlights that AI excels at complex tasks like chess or calculus but fails at simple human skills like navigating cluttered rooms or sensing social awkwardness. Human perceptual abilities evolved over millions of years, while logic is recent.

虎嗅 · 187d ago

Fabric DB Hub: Partial Admin Solution

Microsoft's new Fabric Database Hub is a partial solution for enterprises using non-Microsoft systems. It could connect and manage databases better within Microsoft's ecosystem.

The Register - AI/ML · 187d ago

AI Expert: No Job Apocalypse for Coders

Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson argues the AI job apocalypse is overstated. AI will either substitute or supplement human work, but too many focus only on substitution.

ZDNet AI · 187d ago

Coding

Qwen3.5-27B Runs Local OpenCode Agent

User demonstrates Qwen3.5-27B on RTX 4090 via llama.cpp as primary model for OpenCode coding agent, achieving good tool calling and code tasks. Setup uses 4-bit quantization, 64K context, with ~40 tok/s generation.

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 187d ago

TRACER: LLM Learn-to-Defer Library Release

Author releases TRACER library for cost-efficient LLM classification routing, enabling cheap surrogates with formal teacher-agreement guarantees. It supports three pipeline families and achieves 91.4% coverage at 92% agreement on Banking77.

Reddit r/MachineLearning · 187d ago