Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, an AI model with 1.6 trillion parameters. It claims to be the country’s largest AI model trained entirely on domestic hardware for both pre-training and inference, marking a significant step towards China's self-sufficiency in chip technology.
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2 with a 1-million-token context window, significantly undercutting Western AI models on price. The company's Hong Kong-listed stock surged by up to 48% following the announcement.
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine, the cloud unit that released an OpenClaw-based cloud agent tool ArkClaw, is betting that the next phase of artificial intelligence will hinge on cheaper tokens, higher inference efficiency and longer context windows. “Agent-related token consumption still accounts for a single-digit percentage of total token usage, but it is growing,” said Li Guodong, chief architect of ArkClaw, on Tuesday on the sidelines of OpenClaw’s first mainland China event since the open-source...
DeepSeek has released its next-generation V4 open-source AI model in two versions: V4-pro with 1.6 trillion parameters and V4-flash with 284 billion parameters. Both models feature a 1 million token context window, achieved with 'world-leading' cost efficiency, positioning the Hangzhou startup as competitive with leading US closed-source models.
