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AIAt Advertising Week New York, MiniMax joined Krea, fal and Magnific on a panel about making AI video production-ready.

AIOpenBMB has released MiniCPM-V 4.7, an open-source 35B-A3B MoE multimodal model that the post says runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max using 3 GB of memory at 13+ tokens/s.

AIAnthropic's Frontier Red Team found that GLM-5.2 was the only model to complete a full replication cycle on a firewalled fleet of 8 emulated Android nodes.

AIMeng Shao says Alibaba's Qwen Office will release a "Qwen Office E-commerce Operations" edition, which he links to Alibaba's e-commerce heritage and customer base.

AISTEPX Neo, described as the world's first large-model-native agent phone, was launched at a Ready Builder One event in Shanghai. The source gives no specifications, pricing, or availability details.

AIGoogle opens Gemini 4 Argon to developers and enterprises, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until a November 30 promotion ends.

AIUnitree CEO Wang Xingxing says his biggest mistake over the past decade was not believing in AI enough.

AIUnitree CEO Wang Xingxing says a GPT-7 model released next year could directly solve the problems of embodied intelligence, which he defines as robots completing 80% of assigned tasks in 80% of unfamiliar environments using voice or text commands.

AIStrata v0.1.44 adds Apple Silicon support, NVFP4 support, and UD-Q4, UD-Q5, UD-Q6, and UD-Q8 quantizations. It also makes Qwen3.6-35B-A3B available and reports a further 10%-20% speed boost.

AIOpenClaw releases patch v2026.10.3, adding support for Muse Wonder and improving MiniMax. The release also includes Update and Doctor fixes, Mac setup fixes, conversation recovery fixes, and other bug fixes, with 97 contributors credited.

AIMiniMax's FastH3-Omni, an open-source realtime H3 model post-trained by FastVideo and Nuva Lab, generates video with synchronized audio from a single prompt on Reactor.

AIRohan Paul says a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher's claim that China has spies inside both labs looks correct after a recent FBI arrest.

AIArtificial Analysis now publishes cache hit rates and cost per task by provider for open-weights models.

AIArtificial Analysis links to a comparison of cost per task across all GLM-5.3 (max) providers. The post contains no figures, and the comparison is hosted on the Artificial Analysis site.

AIARC Prize reports that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scored 3.3% on ARC-AGI-3 at a total evaluation cost of $878 using the provider adapter harness.

AIARC Prize says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scored 94.5% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.07 per task and 72.9% on ARC-AGI-2 at $0.13 per task.

AIARC Prize has published full DeepSeek V4.1 Flash results on its ARC-AGI leaderboard, with links to the benchmarking code and testing policy for reproduction.

AIfal (@fal) links to a page where users can try the MiniMax H3-Max reframe-video model. The post gives no further details on features, pricing, or performance.

AIShing-Tung Yau and leading Chinese mathematicians launched the Yau Laboratory Alliance for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence in Beijing, uniting eight institutions and aiming for a network of over 1,000 researchers.

AIAlibaba has launched Qwen Go, a Qwen-powered agent for search, comparison, and customer-service negotiation, according to sources.

AIOpenBMB presents MiniCPM-V 4.7, a 35B MoE multimodal model that it says can run on a phone with about 3GB of memory.

AIHuawei says devices powered by its Kirin processors have shipped in more than 100 million units since 2023, when it returned to the smartphone market.

AIChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) said it made progress on a new memory architecture that packs more data into less space, and tech stocks fell on Tuesday.

Why it matters: The source ties a Chinese memory chipmaker's architecture announcement to stock losses at global rivals, showing how competitive chip news moves markets.

AIBanking regulators in the US, UK and Europe are increasingly asking institutions about their use of AI models over financial stability concerns, Reuters reports.

AIAccording to Caijing, DeepSeek is nearing completion of a second funding round of roughly $14 billion, double its initial $7 billion target.

AIBaidu says Apollo Go will welcome the general public aboard its autonomous vehicles for test rides in Tung Chung, Hong Kong, starting October 21.

AIDeepSeek plans to lead a tens-of-millions-of-dollars seed round in Winverse AI, a robotics AI startup founded in 2026, according to Bloomberg.

AIAnthropic says new defenses cut the volume of Claude's extracted reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent in its fight against industrial-scale distillation.

AISamsung and SK Hynix closed down 7.4% and 10.1%, respectively, and have fallen about 16% and 22% over five trading sessions.

AIAI music hardware company SUAVE has closed a seed round of tens of millions of yuan led by HINA, the RMB fund set up by HongShan Asia's China team, Leiphone reports.

AIAutoTrust Labs releases JEV-35B, which builds on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and activates about 3B of its 35B parameters per token under an Apache 2.0 license.

AIApple's HomeView will launch in mainland China, according to a source cited by X.PIN. The version offered there will not include the product's AI features.

AIModelScope releases JEV-35B, a System 1 decision model built on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B that activates about 3B of its 35B parameters per token, under Apache 2.0.

AIAgile Robots, which is also known as, is exhibiting 12 products at the 26th China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, held October 12 to 16.

AIUBTech ranks 11th of 120 on Fortune and BCG's 2026 Future 120 list with a score of 115, the highest-ranked Chinese company.

AIWuwen Xinqiong has closed a Series C round of 2.3 billion yuan, bringing its total funding to 4.3 billion yuan, a record for China's AI-native infrastructure sector.

AIAlibaba's Qwen launches Qwen Go, a personal agent that handles tasks such as flight delay compensation, price protection refunds, and booking car maintenance or court reservations.

AIThe International Embodied AI Skills Competition Preview runs October 23 to 25 in Shanghai, with 23 events across nine tracks based on more than 1,000 application scenarios collected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

AIYibang Dongli will host the 2026 Eighth Yibang Industrial Internet Conference and the first Industrial Agent Conference on November 20 at the Beijing Guomao Hotel, under the theme "Modal Evolution Driven by AI and Going Global." The events will cover industrial agent deployment, AI supply chain value, data elements and token economy, and overseas expansion, and will release the 2026 Yibang Industrial Internet Development Report and the Qianfeng Award "Modal Evolution" case collection.

AIShenzhen Shita Robotics completed an angel round on October 13, with Huawei's Hubble Investment among the investors.