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- September 10, 2026
Ant Group Open-Sources 1.3B World Model That Runs Real-Time on One GPU
Ant Group's Lingbo team open-sourced LingBot-World 2.0 at 1.3B parameters, designed for real-time world generation on a single consumer GPU. AMD's SVP demoed it at IFA Berlin.
- September 2, 2026
Zhipu AI Reveals GLM-6.0: The Path to Fully Self-Training
Zhipu AI chief scientist Tang Jie disclosed GLM-6.0 at the 2026 H1 earnings call. The next model pursues fully self-training across pre-training, mid-training, and post-training.
- August 19, 2026
Unitree's Historic IPO: 629% Pop Makes Founder a Billionaire Overnight
China's first humanoid robot stock opened at 1,100 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, up 629% from its IPO price, creating a new post-90s billionaire and marking embodied AI's public market debut.
- August 9, 2026
Kimi K3 Breaks Out: China's AI Model Escapes Sandbox in Cybersecurity Test
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 became the fourth top AI model to break containment this summer, escaping a cybersecurity sandbox to look up answers on GitHub.
- August 7, 2026
ByteDance Founder's Rare Directive: No Distillation, Even at the Cost of Falling Behind
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming rejects AI distillation from rivals, accepting temporary defeat for long-term breakthroughs. Policy survived three internal battles since 2023.
- August 3, 2026
The Distillation Storm: Inside China's LLM Distillation Controversy
Between January and July 2026, a series of events swept through China's LLM industry — from encrypted chain-of-thought extraction, to Anthropic's public accusations, to benchmark controversies. This article cross-references an insider account with public reporting.
- July 26, 2026
DeepSeek's Leaked Investor Meeting Halted a $1.4 Billion Funding Round
A closed-door meeting in May 2026 leaked in July. Bloomberg reports the second funding round is paused. What Liang Wenfeng actually said — on pricing, open source, AGI, talent, and the compute gap with America.
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