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AITinker adds GLM-5.3-Flash and DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash, both of which natively accept image inputs and use efficient attention architecture.

AIStepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-total, 27B-active MoE model with 1M context and vision, is free to try on Nous Portal for one week. Nous Research says it scored 33.89 on the Hermes Index, the same score as GPT-6 Luna.

AIAlibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 that generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of 40.

AIQwen has released its Turbo image model with open weights, giving image app builders an option to run it in-house instead of relying on hosted API pricing. The post does not specify model size, benchmarks, or pricing.

AINous Research says StepFun's Step 5 Preview is free on Nous Portal for the next week. The model is a 600B total, 27B active MoE with a 1M context window and vision support. It scored 33.89 on the Hermes Index, the same score as GPT-6 Luna.

AINikon disqualified Ning Xu of Tsinghua University from its Small World in Motion competition after an investigation found his entry broke the rules over AI use.

AIaccording to a post from Kilo. The model has 600B parameters, with 27B active per token, and supports a 1M-token context and vision.

AIHeyGen Voice ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Controlled Voice TTS Arena leaderboard with an Elo of 1,201 across 1,468 appearances, ahead of Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,182 and ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 Turbo at 1,166.

AIElvis Saravia says he has tested StepFun's Step 5 Preview as a coding agent since early access and found that it checks its own work and stops when tasks are done.

AIHugging Face launches an arena where users bring their own agent, which gets Nebius GPUs to build RL environments that improve Qwen3.8-27B across eight domains.

AIUnsloth AI says users can now train Qwen3.5-4B to generate decisions instead of text using a free notebook that runs on 8GB VRAM. The walkthrough covers preparing data made of state, questions, and gold answers, then training and serving the model locally.

AIKilo says StepFun has announced Step 5 Preview, which is free to use in Kilo for one week.

AIAnthropic claims Chinese AI developers used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to extract reasoning data from its flagship model, Claude.

AIQwen has published Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Hugging Face, an accelerated checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image generation and image editing with 8 denoising steps.

AIModelScope announces Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint that keeps the 7B visual architecture and runs image generation and editing in 8 denoising steps.

Why it matters: The source names a concrete speedup path, 8 sampling steps and CFG=1 with prefix KV caching, which matters to anyone weighing image generation latency.

AIAlibaba's Qwen team says Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is an accelerated checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 on the same 7B architecture, now with open weights.

AIA 10-person stealth lab founded by Peking University PhD student Tian Keyu raised $30 million from Wolves VC and IDG at a $200 million valuation, according to Leiphone.

AITencent is reportedly considering an offshore bond sale of up to $5 billion in US dollars and offshore yuan, possibly as early as this month, according to Bloomberg.

AIShenzhen-based Insta360 opened its first U.S. flagship store in New York City's Times Square in September, marketing its pocket-sized cameras to content creators, travelers, and sports enthusiasts.

AIModelScope released Corvus-Gov-3B, a compact model tuned for Chinese policy Q&A, public-service consultation, and internal government or enterprise assistants.

AIChinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology is raising HK$4.04 billion ($520 million) through a share placement of 130 million shares at HK$31.08 each, a 33% discount to its July placement price.

AIUnderdog has released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0, a 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B that fits in 7.89 GB, versus 54 GB for the full BF16 model.

AITencent has open-sourced Youtu-Parsing-Omni, a 5B-parameter omni-modal model that outputs a single structured JSON covering layout, text, tables, formulas, ASR, OCR, and video segments.

AIOpenAI has made GPT-6 available to all ChatGPT free and paid users worldwide, replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA. The model integrates Astra safety improvements that strengthen safeguards against misuse in cyber, biological, and violent domains.

AIJetBrains released Mellum2.1, a 12B mixture-of-experts coding model with 2.5B active parameters under Apache 2.0, emphasizing agentic programming.

AIRichard Yu said more Huawei phones will adopt LogicFolding chips built under the Tau Scaling Law, though no models or timetable were given.

AIByteDance's AI development brand TRAE has merged its TraeWork and TraeCode clients into a single product with Agent and IDE modes.

AIByteDance's Doubao Work has added an infinite creation canvas that places source materials, design options and finished output on one page, wired to the new Seedream 5.0 Flash image model.

AIShares of Chinese optical chipmakers fell for a second straight session on Friday amid fears of potential US trade curbs on next-generation optical transceivers for data centres.

AIA suspected 26-year-old in Guangdong reportedly used Claude Code, ARTEX, GLM and DeepSeek in attacks.

AIA LoRA for MiniMax H3 removes a person from video by tracking them with SAM 3.1 and generating the replacement background in overlapping windows. Users supply the original video and a clean version of its first frame.

AIManus parent Butterfly Effect announced funding of over $500M led by Boyu Capital and IDG, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund returning, its first disclosed raise since resuming independent operations.

AIA Seed team preprint reports "phase sensitivity" in DeepSeek V4 and V4.1-Flash, where identical information becomes harder to retrieve depending on its position within compressed KV-cache blocks.

AIDoubao Work has added a Canvas feature for complex creative tasks, placing materials, design plans and outputs on one infinite canvas where users can keep editing text, colors and layout after images are generated.

AIGeekPark reports that Krinwave, a Shenzhen company, has completed a new 400 million yuan round with XVC and Sequoia China as new investors.

AIToday AI, built by Teambition founder Qi Junyuan, launched its China version on September 24 and connects to Feishu, DingTalk, Tencent Docs and email.

AIStar Motion Era's VPP2, a world action model, ranked first on the RoboDojo simulation leaderboard with a 32.26% average success rate and 39.26 average score.

AIIn a podcast, former ByteDance engineer Guo Yu says that in 2015 he first saw a company whose products were driven by neural networks that even engineers could not fully explain.

AIopenJiuwen, an open-source AI Agent platform built by Huawei teams with universities and enterprises, released and open-sourced an enterprise-grade AgentOS. It integrates multi-agent collaboration, self-evolution, compute affinity, multi-tenant isolation and security sandboxing, and a plugin architecture with the Agentic Hub ecosystem.

AIXPENG has named its robotaxi business XPENG YOYO and launched a ride-hailing mini program that lets invited members of the public test the service.