Several Chinese AI labs go months without new model releases
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Several Chinese AI labs have gone months without releasing new models, according to a post by X user meng shao (@shao__meng) on October 17.
The post says ByteDance's Doubao-Seed-2.1-Pro, released June 23, has gone nearly four months without an update. It lists MiniMax-M3 (released June 2), Moonshot AI's Kimi-K3 (June 13) and Baidu's ERNIE 5.1 (April 29) as also more than three months old.
The figures come from the post's own tally, and no lab named in it is quoted in the report.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 17, 9:18 AM ET
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meng shao@shao__mengXSeveral Chinese AI labs have gone months without new modelsAIDoubao-Seed-2.1-Pro, released by ByteDance on June 23, has gone nearly four months without an update. MiniMax-M3 (June 2), Kimi-K3 from Moonshot AI (June 13), and Baidu's ERNIE 5.1 (April 29) are also more than three months old, according to the post's tally.
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