Foundation Models
LLMs & AI modelsChina's foundation models — Doubao, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Ernie, Hunyuan and more: releases, capabilities, open-source moves and benchmarks.

Un, the First Large-Scale Generative Model to Use Physics as a Computational Primitive
Over the past decade-plus, GPU-centric digital computing has dominated AI. Bigger clusters, higher bandwidth, more powerful GPUs, and denser data centers have seemed to be the mainstream path toward the next generation of AI.

DeepSeek and Kimi Diverge as Funding Rises
Liang Wenfeng and Yang Zhilin Start Answering Different Questions

ByteDance Lights Up Its Own ChatGPT Moment During Chinese New Year
The real AI offensive is a hard decision to turn itself into a technology company.

Doubao’s 500-yuan-a-month Pro Plan Is Officially Here. Is It Expensive?
Can an Agent-Driven Office Workflow Really Replace Employees?

Huawei’s SpaceMind Tops a Leading Spatial Intelligence Benchmark: A Pure RGB Vision-Language Model Scores 70.6, Setting a New Record on Fei-Fei Li’s Leaderboard
Large models can now hold fluent conversations and recognize objects in images, but a more fundamental question remains unresolved: do they actually “understand” the three-dimensional world we live in?

Huawei Open-Sources 7B Multimodal Model With Strong Visual Grounding and OCR, Bringing a New Ascend Edge “Sweet Spot
Models in the 7B parameter class have long been a favorite for edge deployment and individual developers.

Kimi K3 Sparks Heavy Demand as GPUs Struggle to Keep Up
Kimi K3 is drawing strong attention, with demand apparently outpacing available GPU capacity. The headline points to pressure on compute resources around the model, but the body provided is empty and details cannot be verified.