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AIImport AI 474 is a research newsletter by Jack Clark that surveys four developments and one fiction piece.

AICreator CHunye produced the Japanese-style zombie short drama DUHAI entirely on his own from Episode 3 onward using SenseTime's Seko AI video creation agent.

AIBona Film Group says Sanxingdui: Future Past, a 100-minute theatrical feature that uses AI throughout production, will screen nationwide on October 23, 2026.

AIModelScope released LayerExtract and LayerRemove, two Qwen-Image-2.1 LoRAs for editing flattened images.

AIKling AI's blog outlines a structured prompt method for basketball league logos, covering league identity, basketball symbol, style, colours, and composition.

AIEmber-1, a model built on Kimi K3 through post-training, reportedly reasons 40% more concisely while keeping the same quality and running 40% faster and cheaper.

AIMiniMax has made MiniMax-M3.1 Flash Preview available on its Token Plan, targeting teams with high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads.

AIAnthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at about 40% lower cost than Opus 5, priced at $4/$20 per MTok input/output.

AIXiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Flash-MOPD on Hugging Face, an upgrade of the MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL checkpoint that fuses several domain-specialized teachers into one model.

AIXiaomi MiMo reports that tool-call repetition in MiMo-V2.6 reached over 0.05% of responses across agent harnesses, causing stalled agents and wasted context.

Why it matters: The post traces an agent failure to a reward blind spot and compares the costs of two fixes, offering a transferable debugging method for RL-trained tool-calling models.

AIXiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Pro-MOPD, an upgrade of the MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL checkpoint that fuses several domain-specialized teachers into one model via MOPD2 and targets tool-call repetition.

AIHailuo AI promoted a weekend cartoon post, and a quoted clip by @awesome_visuals, titled "the chef's revenge," was made with MiniMax H3 Max. The post offers no further details on the model's features or performance.

AIXiaomi released an open-source RL environments repository, MiMo-V2.6-RL-oss, on Hugging Face.

AIMeituan LongCat has made its LongCat-2.5-Preview model free to try on OpenCode for two weeks. The offer includes a 1M context window, multimodal support, and zero data retention.

AILongCat-2.5-Preview is free on OpenCode for two weeks, offering a 1M context window, multimodal support, and zero data retention. The post does not provide further details on pricing terms or capabilities beyond these listed features.

AIAlexander Doria reports that the released set is a smaller selection of 989 environments for RL training a 9B distilled model, not the full MiMo.

AIShanghai AI Lab's InternLM released Intern-Decision-4B, a multimodal structured decision model fine-tuned from Qwen3.5-4B, which returns answer distributions for multiple questions in one forward pass.

AIShanghai AI Lab's InternLM released Intern-Decision-2B, a multimodal structured decision model fine-tuned from Qwen3.5-2B that returns calibrated answer distributions for multiple questions in one forward pass.

AISemiAnalysis's China Datacenter Model tracks over 1,000 facilities across 60+ operators and puts China's fleet above 24GW, larger than EMEA. The report attributes the buildout to the Eastern Data, Western Compute policy and hyperscale AI demand, which is moving capacity to western hubs such as Inner Mongolia at construction speeds it says the West cannot match.

AIOpenCode says its $60 of usage for DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now permanent, as part of its "Operation Cheepseek Phase 2" promotion. The post gives no further details on terms, duration, or eligibility.

AIMeituan LongCat is giving every existing user 5 million free tokens to try LongCat-2.5-Preview, with balances viewable on the LongCat platform usage page. Existing token packages work with both LongCat-2.5-Preview and LongCat-2.0.

AIMeituan's LongCat team has released LongCat-2.5-Preview, a natively multimodal model with 1.6T total parameters, about 48B active, and a 1M-token context window.

Why it matters: The announcement lists concrete scale, context, and multimodal specs, plus a named range of agent tasks, which helps readers gauge the preview's scope against other long-context models.

AIAlibaba Cloud's Wan3.0 workflow, run on Venice, produces a 10-second 1080p AI video for $1.82. The post argues that production cost, rather than output quality, will determine how much AI video content can scale.

AIThe TileRT and AMD teams reached 469 tok/s single-user decode for GLM-5.3 on 8× MI355X using vLLM. The setup disaggregates work, with vLLM handling prefill and TileRT handling latency-critical decode through vLLM's V1 connector interface.

AIHuawei will likely remain about four years behind Nvidia in AI chip performance and production through 2030, Epoch AI estimates.

AIBaidu's Apollo Go RT6 vehicles have been testing on London's complex streets and traffic patterns for more than a month with Lyft. The post shares video footage of the ongoing testing without disclosing performance metrics or launch timing.

AIModelScope released Qwen-Image-2.1-Fun-Controlnet-Union, a single checkpoint adding eight structural controls, including Canny, Depth, Pose, and Scribble, plus inpainting to Qwen-Image 2.1.

AITencent Hunyuan's Hy Image 3.5 preview is now available on GMI Cloud at $0.024 per image. The pricing is reported as 8.8x cheaper than GPT Image 2 and 5.6x cheaper than Nano Banana Pro.

AIinclusionAI has published public training-content summaries on Hugging Face for its Ling and Ring model versions, including Ling-2.0, Ling-2.5, Ling-2.6-1T, Ling-3.0, Ring-2.0, Ring-2.5-1T, and Ring-2.6-1T. The documents, organized under the template associated with Article 53(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, contain documentation only, not model weights or training datasets.

AITencent Hy Translation has launched, powered by Hy-MT2, supporting 33 languages and 5 Chinese minority languages and dialects.

AINunchux runs MiniMax-H3 on AMD MI355X GPUs, generating 5 seconds of video in 1.3 seconds with up to 26.7x faster inference than SGLang on 8 GPUs.

AIKling AI's blog identifies six limitations of current AI video generation, including temporal consistency, character consistency across shots, unrealistic physics, long-form generation, fine details and text, and prompt control.

AITencent Hunyuan extends classical critical-batch-size theory to online LLM reinforcement learning, where models generate their own training data.

AIAlibaba Cloud and Venice AI demonstrated Wan3.0 producing a finished scene from a single text prompt, with cinematic motion, 1080p output, and generated sound.

AIAnt Ling's Ming-Image-0.1-Design, a text-to-image model built for graphic-design output and legible text rendering, is now available via Novita on OpenRouter. Novita launched it as a Day-0 partner with a free 14-day offer.

AIInferact says vLLM maintainers used megakernel optimization to reach 700 tokens per second per user on TPUv7 running Kimi K3.

AIInferact says its first TPU megakernel for Kimi K3 reaches 709 tokens/s on low-concurrency decode with DSpark speculative decoding, versus 450 tokens/s for its GB200 baseline.

AIUnsloth has passed 500 million model downloads on Hugging Face. Its Qwen3.8-27B GGUF is the most-downloaded model in Unsloth's history.

AIQwen shared performance results for its Mobile Creative Agent, though the post provides no specific figures or details. The brief announcement offers limited information beyond the performance label.

AIQwen posted performance results for its mobile-use agent, though the post itself provides no benchmark scores or details. The announcement is a brief teaser with no further specifics on the agent's capabilities.