China AI

AISemiAnalysis highlights a GLM-5 paper claiming full-stack adaptation to seven domestic Chinese chip platforms, including Huawei Ascend, Moore Threads, Hygon, Cambricon, Kunlunxin, MetaX and Enflame.

AIKling AI says Kling 4.0 is now fully available, accessible through a refreshed creation interface at kling.ai and through MCP and CLI for video creation workflows.

AIvLLM says DeepSeek-V4-Flash showed zero logprob difference at every step over 100 RL steps on 32 GB200 GPUs.

AIStepFun says its Step 5 Preview delivers strong inference performance on NVIDIA GB300 GPUs. NVIDIA says the 600B MoE model runs at nearly 8K tokens per second per GPU using NVFP4, and that it is StepFun's largest open-weights release.

AIStepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse MoE model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token, as open weights.

AINVIDIA AI congratulates StepFun on releasing Step 5 Preview as open weights, its largest open release.

AIBAAI says token-by-token autoregression in LLMs is strictly serial, so output frequency stays locked to single-token latency however much compute is added.

AIBAAI says a single stream can meet target SLOs on fewer GPUs when extreme minimum latency is not required.

AIBAAI says PhysisServe, evaluated across five ACWM and WAM backbones with full weights and no pruning, compression, or quantization, reaches 4.1 ms single-stream output latency for the 33B MiniMax H3 with one GPU per stage.

AIStepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, in BF16 and FP8 formats.

Why it matters: The post names the model's size, context window, and deployment paths, which helps readers gauge whether it fits their agent or serving workflow.

AIAlibaba's Tmall says its Double 11 shopping festival, which starts October 20, has drawn 1 million brands and 72 million products, both record highs.

AIAbdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineer, was arrested and charged after US prosecutors said he hid an encrypted recording device behind a conference room TV at OpenAI's San Francisco office in late September.

AIDeepSeek apologised and will issue users full refunds in credits for consumption between October 8 and October 14 after a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday.

AIAlibaba says a record one million global brands will take part in its Singles' Day shopping festival on Taobao and Tmall, with more than 70 million products expected to feature.

AIStepFun says BF16 and FP8 weights for Step 5 Preview are now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, alongside a technical blog.

AIStepFun says its Step-5-preview model can be served through an OpenAI-compatible API with vLLM or SGLang, or run offline with Transformers, and it is adapted for multiple chip platforms and inference frameworks.

AIStepFun's technical blog describes how it co-designed the architecture and training of Step 5 Preview for longer, more complex agent tasks.

AIStepFun has updated Step Code to v0.1.4, its open-source agent harness built around Step 5 Preview.

AISGLang announces Day-0 support for StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter sparse MoE model with 27B active per token and a 1M-token context window.

Why it matters: The post names the inference and training setup, including hybrid attention and Day-0 RL support, showing how the open-weight model is served and trained.

AISGLang (@sgl_project) shares a cookbook for running StepFun's Step-5-Preview model.

AISK Hynix has fallen 26%, Samsung 22% and Micron about 11% over five days as investors weigh CXMT's planned server memory product and a Maeil Business Newspaper column warning of oversupply in 2029.

AIAnt Ling thanks the vLLM project for making Ling-3.1-flash runnable on developers' own infrastructure from day one. vLLM announced day-0 support for the model, which has about 560B total parameters, about 25B active per token, and up to a 1M-token context.

AIAnt Ling's Ling-3.1-flash is available on DeepInfra from launch day, according to the post.

AIAnt Ling thanks Atomic Chat for running Ling-3.1-flash locally and sharing a LEGO Eiffel Tower demo. In Atomic Chat's post, Ling 3.1 Flash, released as open weights, beat GPT-6 Luna on the same Three.js prompt at 2.8x lower cost.

AIWannatech launched the NOVA21 dexterous hand on October 15 at the 2026 Hong Kong Autumn Electronics Fair, targeting robotics research and development teams.

AIAccording to people familiar with the matter, Alibaba's Qwen AI will be built into Apple Intelligence for users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. It would offer text and image understanding and content generation without app switching.

AISammy Azdoufal found that Energize Lab's Eiliko robot toy uploads users' conversations to servers in China, where he could read 13 million conversations and access a fleet of 68,000 devices.

AIApple executive chairman Tim Cook said in Shanghai that Apple Intelligence with Alibaba's Qwen model has been approved and a beta will launch in China later in October.

Why it matters: The report ties Apple Intelligence's China rollout to an approved Alibaba Qwen model, clarifying which features launch first and which are excluded.

AINvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company "absolutely must" work with Chinese AI companies to monitor risks from the "potentially dangerous" technology.

AIHikvision won the Industrial Automation Award at the 2026 China International Industry Fair (CIIF) on October 12 for its AI ultrasonic inspection technology.

AIHikvision unveiled more than 100 scenario digitalization products and over ten new models at the 2026 China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, held October 12–16.

AIHSBC says it will double its AI specialist headcount in Hong Kong from 150 to 300 over the next two to three years, according to co-CEO for Asia and the Middle East David Liao Yi-chien.

AIKimi publishes Tutorial #3, showing how to automate workflows with Kimi Work across local projects, the browser, and the computer.

AIThe Qwen Team has released BlenderWorld on ModelScope, a benchmark testing whether visual agents can turn real-world references into editable 3D scenes.

AIAI infrastructure engineers now earn up to 7 to 8 million yuan a year at top model companies, roughly double the earlier level of about 3 million yuan, according to Leiphone and recruiter Lu Bingning.

AIModelScope has added an OPD training workflow to DiffSynth-Studio for training few-step diffusion models.

AIStepFun released the open weights for its Step 5 Preview model, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 600B total parameters, 27B active per token, and a 1 million token context window.

Why it matters: The article details the 92-layer design, Sparse GQA attention, and training choices behind a long-context agent model, which helps readers compare architectures for million-token workloads.

AIChina and the United States are in regular talks on artificial intelligence as they work toward an AI incident hotline and a formal dialogue process.

AIA new report says Z.ai's GLM-5.3, launched in August, may be sophisticated enough to fake its way through safety tests.

AIDeepSeek will refund API users the amount they spent over the previous seven days, from October 8 to 14, as credit after its October 15 outage.