Seedance 2.0: China’s AI video shocks Hollywood
Seedance 2.0 shows China’s AI video can rival OpenAI and Google, mixing realism with serious ethical and legal questions.
Qwen 3.5: Faster, Cheaper And More Multimodal AI
Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 boosts multimodal and agent skills, narrowing the gap with US AI leaders while staying efficient through a sparse MoE design.
Inside Qwen Image 2.0: Slides, Posters And Photorealism
Qwen Image 2.0 unifies generation and editing with sharper 2K visuals, better humans and typography that finally makes text‑heavy designs workable.
Qwen3 Max Thinking: New Contender in Deep Reasoning
Alibaba’s reasoning model pairs test‑time scaling with web search and code tools, topping Gemini 3 Pro and GPT‑5.2 on HLE search and math benchmarks.
Why US platforms are turning to Chinese AI models
Chinese open source AI like DeepSeek and Qwen is winning US clients by mixing solid performance with flexibility and lower operating costs.
How DeepSeek Trains Powerful Models On A Budget
The mHC idea lets DeepSeek train 3–27B models more efficiently, supporting its push to rival US labs while spending only a fraction on hardware.
Building On Qwen-Image-2512 Instead Of Closed Image AI
Qwen-Image-2512 offers open source, Apache licensed image generation that challenges Google’s Nano Banana Pro for flexible, enterprise ready workflows.
Chinese Coding Models GLM 4.7 and M2.1 Step Up
Chinese coding models now sit close to Claude tier performance, while Doubao and Yuanbao prove domestic AI platforms can win huge mainstream audiences.
How Open Source AI Is Quietly Deflating the Hype Today
As enterprises discover capable open models they can run themselves, the pricing power of closed US platforms starts to look increasingly fragile.
Layered AI Images: Inside Qwen-Image-Layered Editing
Qwen-Image-Layered splits flat images into editable RGBA layers, enabling consistent, Photoshop-like edits with precise control over each element.
Z-Image-Turbo: Alibaba’s 6B param text-to-image powerhouse
Z-Image-Turbo is a 6B param model by Alibaba for photorealistic, fast text-to-image generation with English and Chinese text support.
DeepSeek R1: $294K training cost, ultra‑low inference rates
DeepSeek’s R1 cost ~$294K to train with 512 H800 GPUs and 80h. Inference costs are ~$0.55 input / $2.19 output per million tokens.
DeepSeek-V3 Unveiled: 236B Parameters and 128K Context for Free
DeepSeek-V3 majorly upgrades from V2 with a massive 236B parameter count, a vastly larger 128K context window, and superior performance, all offered for free.
Alibaba Develops New AI Chip to Counter NVIDIA Dominance
Alibaba is developing a new AI chip to reduce China's reliance on foreign technology like NVIDIA's, amid ongoing export controls and supply chain challenges.
VibeVoice AI Challenges the Traditional Audiobook Production
Microsoft's open-source VibeVoice-1.5B AI can generate synthetic speech, threatening to disrupt the audiobook industry by reducing reliance on human narrators.
Edit Images with Text Precision: Qwen-Image-Edit Released
Qwen-Image-Edit adds precise bilingual text, semantic, and appearance editing via dual encoding accessible via Chat, API, Hugging Face, and open-source
Qwen‑Image: Open-Source 20B Model for Text-Rich Image Generation
Qwen-Image is a new 20B open-source model that integrates flawless bilingual text rendering with powerful image editing & generation capabilities.
GLM-4.5 vs. Claude 4 Sonnet: Is China Winning the Open-Source AI Race ?
China's Zhipu AI releases GLM-4.5 models, outperforming Claude 4 Sonnet in benchmarks, signaling China's open-source AI leadership.
Alibaba Launches Open Source Model Qwen3‑Coder
Alibaba’s Qwen3‑Coder: 480 B MoE model (35 B active), agentic coding AI with massive context window, matches GPT‑4/Claude, fully open‑source.