China AI

AIIntern Large Models releases Intern-S2-Preview-397B, a 397B-parameter open multimodal foundation model for scientific intelligence and long-horizon agents.

AIThe Chinese Academy of Sciences released ScienceOne Omni 2.0 (Pan Shi 2.0) at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on July 17.

AIMoonshot AI announced Kimi K3, a native multimodal model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window.

AITsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) developed Agent Hospital, a virtual hospital where doctors, nurses and patients are all LLM-driven agents built on the MedAgent-Zero framework.

AIByteDance's UniVR-34B-Planning, built on Emu3.5 at 34B parameters, learns visual reasoning, physical dynamics, and long-term planning from visual demonstrations using a next-token objective and two-stage training on the VR-X dataset with VR-GRPO reinforcement learning.

AIIn a long interview, Peking University professor Dong Bin describes his team's AI framework autonomously solving the Anderson conjecture, reportedly the first such domestic result with large-scale formal verification.

AIUBTECH and Hitachi (China) signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop humanoid robot solutions for smart manufacturing across fields including elevators, building systems, healthcare, and semiconductor equipment.

AIUBTECH's exclusive distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Terra Robotics, has bought several dozen full-size humanoid robots that are being deployed at logistics centers of ROSSMANN, a European health and beauty retailer with annual turnover above €15 billion.

AIThe Hong Kong Stock Exchange named UBTECH Robotics (09880.HK) a constituent of its inaugural HKEX Tech 100 Index on December 9.

AIBAAI introduced RoboBrain Orca, which learns world latent representations from multimodal data and models world-state transitions through Next-State-Prediction instead of only next-token, next-frame, or next-action prediction.

AICognition says its SWE-1.7 model, developed from the open-source Kimi K2.7 Code base, performs as well as or better than leading U.S. frontier models on its new trustworthiness evaluation suite.

AISkywork Design is an AI workspace that generates production-ready UI from a text description and publishes it as a live website in one click.

AISkywork promotes starting a new deck in the size you need, linking to skywork.ai. The post gives no product details, features, or pricing.

AISkywork users can now set custom slide sizes instead of being limited to 16:9. The update supports portrait decks, mobile-first presentations, social posts, and reports in the formats users need.

AIWork doesn't happen in one app. That's why Skywork connects your entire workflow: From Gmail and Notion to Slack and Drive, you can focus on getting things done. Connect your workflow. Automate your work. Build with Skywork 👉

AIPromptArmor reports that Skills in Microsoft Copilot Cowork can call DeepSeek even when an organization has not opted into the DeepSeek Preview.

AIZ.ai's post asks followers of @zcode_ai to keep up with the latest updates and links to the ZCode changelog at zcode.z.ai. The post itself contains no specific features, versions, or release details.

AIZ.ai has launched ZCode, its official development environment for GLM-5.2, available on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

AIXiaomi MiMo's account celebrated growing developer adoption of its open-weights models, crediting Cline for building on MiMo.

AIDeepSeek has posted the eagle3_gemma4_12b_ttt7 model on Hugging Face, listed at 2B parameters in BF16 tensor format with 621 downloads last month.

AIDeepSeek published a model named eagle3_qwen3_14b_ttt7 on Hugging Face, listed at 2B parameters in BF16 with the Safetensors format.

AIDeepSeek has published eagle3_qwen3_8b_ttt7 on Hugging Face, a model listed at 2B parameters in BF16 safetensors format. The model card is missing, it has 577 downloads last month, and no Inference Provider currently deploys it.

AIDeepSeek has published eagle3_qwen3_4b_ttt7 on Hugging Face, a 0.9B-parameter model in BF16 tensor format. The model has no model card and is not deployed by any Inference Provider, and it is listed in the DeepSpec Collection.

AIPaddleFormers 1.2 is released with support for training DeepSeek-V4 and 128K+ long-context training.

AISebastian Raschka's tutorial shows how to build a fully local coding agent by pairing an open-weight LLM served through an inference runtime with an open-source harness that can read files, edit code, and run commands.

AIQwen released Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B-hf, a Transformers-format forced aligner that predicts timestamps for arbitrary units within up to 5 minutes of speech in 11 languages.

AIThe 8th BAAI Conference opened an immersive zone featuring SoulAgent, embodied intelligence, FlagOS, and AI for Science.

AIAt BAAI's "Reconstructing the World — Large Model Summit," President Wang Zhongyuan joined Zhu Jun, Luo Fuli, Liu Zhiyuan, An Bo, and other industry leaders in a roundtable.

AIThe AI Futures Project forecasts that China will reach commercial-scale 7 nm-capable immersion DUV around the mid-2030s and commercial-scale 5 nm-capable EUV around 2040.

AIJeremy Howard says Zai's GLM 5.2 is at least as good as Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 while being very fast and inexpensive.

AIXiaomi has launched MiMo Claw, an agent built on its flagship MiMo model and integrated with Kingsoft Office for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF workflows.

AIBAAI President Wang Zhongyuan announced a shift in AI from token prediction to physical state prediction in the institute's 2026 annual research report.

AIZ.ai has released GLM-5.2, its flagship model for long-horizon tasks, which it says substantially improves on GLM-5.1 and supports a 1M-token context.

Why it matters: The source gives benchmark tables against named rival models and deployment settings, useful for judging where GLM-5.2 sits among current flagship models.

AIZ.ai's release notes list GLM-5.2 as supporting 1M lossless context, with improved long-horizon task performance and reduced context drift and goal forgetting.

Why it matters: The page lists a dated series of Z.ai model releases, showing how the coding and long-horizon agent line has evolved from GLM-4.5 through GLM-5.2.

AIByteDance has released Sa2VA-LLaVA-1.5-7B on Hugging Face, a model built on LLaVA-1.5-7B with a SAM2 grounding encoder that performs dense image and video referring segmentation alongside open-ended chat.

AITuring Award winners Whitfield Diffie and Andrew Barto delivered keynotes at the BAAI Conference on AI security and reinforcement learning.

AIThe Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) kicked off its 8th BAAI Conference on June 12–13, 2026, at the Zhongguancun International Innovation Center.

AITri Dao's post proposes loading SSM states, computing with them, and not storing them to make hybrid model decoding about 2x faster.

AIMoonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Hugging Face as an open-weight, native multimodal agentic model with 2.8T total parameters and 104B activated parameters.

Why it matters: The release pairs open weights with a 2.8T-parameter MoE architecture and benchmark tables against several named closed models, useful for comparing frontier capability claims.

AIOpenRouter introduced Fusion, a tool that sends a prompt to a panel of models and has a judge model fuse their results into one answer.

Why it matters: The source gives benchmark scores, panel compositions, and contamination controls, letting readers judge how much of the gain comes from model diversity versus self-synthesis.