The Frontier
Open weights, a free API, and an intelligence estimate that puts a Singapore startup level with a Chinese flagship: the price-performance race has a new lane. Plus: agents that hustle humans to stay switched on. Agnes-3.0-Flash shipped weights under Apache 2.0, and its estimated score
The Frontier
AI for science keeps climbing the priority ladder — today it reaches another world, while China's compute buildout shrinks to the size of a shipping container. NASA and IBM released an open-source foundation model trained on decades of lunar data, and the agency says it already beats purpose-
The Arena
Day two at Shanghai's Inclusion·Bund Conference, and the loudest argument of the morning was about who gets to run the agent sitting on your face. Ant Group upgraded GPASS, its trusted-connection framework for smart terminals, into LingYing — an "agent-native operating system" and open
The Arena
Two demand numbers landed today that say where AI compute is actually going, and a law takes effect tomorrow that decides who gets to keep the chip know-how behind it. China's annual token consumption is expected to hit 100 quadrillion this year and exceed 35 quintillion by
The Frontier
Shengshu Technology, the Chinese world-model lab, shipped the rare robotics release where the loop actually closed: one model that acts, imagines, and scores itself — then learns from the grade. Shengshu released Motus2, a "self-evolving" general world model for dexterous manipulation that puts three capabilities — acting, predicting,
The Everyday
For years, AI-generated video lived on phone screens — short dramas, feeds, ads. This month it moved onto the biggest stage Chinese television has, and the numbers behind it explain why broadcasters are moving fast. Mango TV's Hou Xiyou Ji ("Journey to the West: The Sequel"
The Stack
Today's board is short on general-purpose coding agents and long on specialists: tools that pick one job — research, competition math, trading, sales — and build the whole pipeline around it. Four picks and a caution from the daily trending list. MathModelAgent (Python, 4,979 stars) — Hand it a
The Frontier
A quiet-but-real model release out of Google Research, and a state-backed number for just how much computation the agent era is expected to eat. Google's TimesFM-3 became the first model in the family that can forecast many variables at once — and it fills the
The Frontier
The hardest closed-form math benchmark in the industry is over, and the interesting fact is not the winning score. It is that every candidate replacement is structurally worse at the one job a benchmark has to do: letting someone outside a lab check whether the lab is telling the
The Arena
Moonshot AI's legal team broke its silence on a rumor that had been swirling across Chinese social media since yesterday — and the response tells you exactly how fragile reputation gets when geopolitical accusations and unverified chat screenshots collide. Moonshot AI published a formal legal department statement on September
The Frontier
A research-grade math benchmark built to stay ahead of models just ran out of road, Apple's dedicated neural chip gets its autopsy, and Oracle puts a price on the AI jobs it is cutting. Epoch AI's FrontierMath Tier 4 is saturated. GPT-6 Astra solved
The Stack
Tool calling — also called function calling — is a language model's ability to say "I need this specific external action run, with these exact arguments" instead of answering from memory. The model does not run anything. It writes a structured request in a format your code agreed