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AIAlibaba's Wan account replied to a post praising Wan 3.0, which was shown producing a video in a Higgsfield demo alongside a GPT Image 2.5 "Sunburst" image.

AIWan 3.0 lets users place their own photo into any scene and animate it using the Peel-Off Sticker skill on wan.video. The post presents this as a single-photo workflow but gives no further technical details.

AIStepFun invites developers to try the Step 5 Preview through its online platform.

AIStepFun says it is focusing Step 5 Preview on finance, judging it on verifying reliable information, reconciling conflicting reports, stating assumptions, and producing consistent, reproducible valuations.

AIStepFun has previewed Step 5, an agent built for professional knowledge work spanning large-scale research, structured analysis, and interactive reporting.

AIStepFun says its Step 5 Preview works across software environments and tracks prior results to decide its next attempts.

AIStepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a flagship model for agentic work that it says delivers frontier-level performance in software engineering and professional knowledge work, with particular strength in finance.

Why it matters: The post pairs a cost-versus-intelligence chart with specs and a later open-weights date, so readers can judge the cost tradeoff against named competitor models.

AIOpenBMB's 2B-parameter MiniCPM5 model runs as a local news desk on an older i5-9400F PC with 16GB RAM and no cloud API. The developer built a system that collects official sources hourly and sends a 24-hour Telegram recap with a lead story and links.

AIA creator submitted a second entry to the OpenArt AI Ad Awards, made exclusively with Wan 3.0. The post presents the work as a genre-shifting story that showcases the model's range across styles.

AILM Studio announced that Qwen3.8-27B runs at up to 144 tokens per second on an M5 Max MacBook Pro through its partnership with Inco Splash.

AILMSYS Org announced a blog on running DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi-K3 on consumer hardware using SSD Expert Pack, built by WiCi AI and the SGLang team.

AISemiAnalysis tested offloading DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash's Engram embedding table from HBM to host DRAM and to local SSD. On B200 configurations, DRAM delivered more total tokens per dollar and higher P90 interactivity than SSD at every measured point.

AIMiniMax has opened its Code CLI, making it available on GitHub at The post provides only the repository link and offers no further details on features or availability terms.

AIVeteran film and TV producer Diane Shorthouse is exploring how AI can expand what filmmakers create, sharing her experience making MINIBOTS with Kling AI. The post says AI can support safer production and help bring emotional performances to AI characters.

AIHailuo AI's post suggests that a single 3x3 storyboard image can be converted into a video using the MiniMax H3 Max r2v model at 480p for 15 seconds.

AIMiniMax Design now offers 20% savings on annual plans and has launched custom model support. Users can create with their preferred models at design.minimax.io.

AIWan 3.0's output resolution has been raised by one level, according to a quoted post from @roco_kn_roco. The main post from Wan (@Alibaba_Wan) contains only emoji and adds no further details.

AIHuawei unveiled the Atlas 960E superpod, which links up to 4,096 NPUs using near-packaged optics (NPO) and claims eight exaflops at FP8 precision and up to one petabyte of high-bandwidth memory.

AIWan, the account associated with Qwen, shares a link to video results on the OpenArt arena page. The post provides no model names, scores, or other specific figures.

AIWan3.0 placed second in the Overall Video category on OpenArt Arena, according to its developers. The post highlights support for 30-second takes, native audio, and any reference input for creators.

AIInferact, with Red Hat AI, NVIDIA, and Huawei, co-led an optimization effort that makes Kimi K3 on vLLM 2.2–2.8× faster.

AIMiniMax has become an AI partner to Singtel's newly launched AI Pass, supporting Singapore's SkillsFuture AI Subscription initiative.

AIOpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B is a 2.5B-parameter model with native 128K context, offering hybrid Think and No-Think modes in one checkpoint.

AIVC-Attention, developed by Nunchux AI and collaborators, accelerates attention for MiniMax-H3 without retraining.

AIAlibaba Wan's post advises beginners making AI video to design a viewing experience and tell an emotion-triggering story rather than chasing the prettiest frame.

AISenseTime released its SenseNova U1.5 technical report, describing an open-source 8B native MoT unified model that connects understanding and generation through shared attention.

AIPruna AI has introduced P-Video-2-Pro, built on MiniMax H3, which generates 5-second videos at 480p or 720p in seconds. The model is 50% off for one week, starting at $0.01 per second.

AIBaidu's Apollo Go plans to apply for commercial operation of its autonomous driving service in Hong Kong, citing the HKSAR Government's support in its first Five-Year Plan and the 2026 Policy Address.

AIBaidu's Apollo Go robotaxi is conducting fully driverless testing on Hong Kong's roads. The post invites viewers to see the vehicles in action but gives no further details on scale, timing, or partners.

AIinclusionAI has released Ming-Image-0.1-Design-Layer on Hugging Face, a model that decomposes a flattened design image into a requested number of RGBA layers using an image and a layer plan.

AIHuawei unveiled the Ascend 960 SuperPoD at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, supporting up to 4,096 NPU cards, 8E FP8 computing power, and 1PB of HBM capacity.

AISenseTime chief scientist Lin Dahua argues that native multimodal AI, which processes language, vision and other information in one shared model, is essential for AI to move beyond coding into industries and the physical world.

AIinclusionAI has released Ming-Image-0.1-Design, a 6B text-to-image model for UI, infographics, and posters that outputs RGBA images with transparent backgrounds.

AIZ.ai reports that GLM-5.3 helped build and optimize the inference infrastructure for GLM-5.3-Flash.

AIAlibaba's Wan3.0 video model now produces a single 30-second shot directly, up from 15 seconds and a year ago's 5-second clips.

AIKling AI's post links to a full film hosted at watch.fountain0.com. The post itself gives no further details about the film's content, production, or release.

AIOpenBMB says Dubedo is the kind of product it hoped VoxCPM2 would enable, citing speaker-aware cloning, multilingual generation, and an editing studio.

AIFountain 0's new feature film ODYSSEUS: The Fall, directed by Ash Koosha, is now available in full with every shot generated by Kling 3.0.

AIQwen's Wan 3.0 video model produced a complete fantasy fight between a mage and a swordswoman, with strong timing, poses, and complex layouts that the post calls anime-ready.

AIWan (@Alibaba_Wan) shares a magical girl clip made with Wan 3.0. The post notes it is also a test of effect generation, so more magical girl content may follow. The clip was shared alongside the TapNow tool.