3 d. ago Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability

Chinese short video platform Kuaishou on Monday launched a new artificial intelligence video generation model to challenge OpenAI’s Sora and start-up Runway in the global market for AI content creation. Kuaishou, which competes with TikTok’s Chinese sibling Douyin in China, said Kling O1 was the first unified multimodal video model in the industry, based on an architecture that integrated diverse video creation tasks – generation, precise and controllable editing and understanding – into a...

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6 d. ago Beyond DeepSeek: Moonshot and MiniMax step up as China’s new frontier AI labs

Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups Moonshot AI and MiniMax have emerged as China’s strongest contenders to rival US frontier labs in 2025 – even as DeepSeek has stolen the spotlight as the poster child for the country’s AI ambitions. Moonshot AI, founded by 33-year-old Yang Zhilin, has sharply raised its profile in China’s AI ecosystem with the launch earlier this month of Kimi K2 Thinking, an upgraded reasoning model. The system outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet...

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7 d. ago Tesla China launches major Model Y/3 sales incentives for year

Tesla China launches major Model Y/3 sales incentives for year-end sales push  GlobalChinaEV

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2 w. ago China AI unicorn Moonshot raising fresh funds at $4 bln valuation

China AI unicorn Moonshot raising fresh funds at $4 bln valuation- WSJ  Investing.com

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2 w. ago China’s Moonshot AI Raising Fresh Funds That Could Value It at About $4 Billion

China’s Moonshot AI Raising Fresh Funds That Could Value It at About $4 Billion  The Wall Street Journal

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2 w. ago Google launches Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet

Alphabet’s Google debuted an updated version of its artificial intelligence model, Gemini, that executives said represented a “massive jump” in reasoning and coding ability. The new model, Gemini 3, will be available immediately across all of Google’s major products, including search, and can answer questions with interactive graphics. Gemini 3, like its predecessor, could process text, images and other media as well as solve complex science and maths problems, the company said. It had...

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3 w. ago China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot AI continues to develop AI models with fewer high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) than what its US rivals use, according to the Beijing-based start-up’s executives. In a three-hour-long “ask me anything” session on Reddit on Monday evening, a Moonshot AI representative with the handle “ppwwyyxx” – the same moniker used by co-founder Wu Yuxin on X – said the company was “outnumbered” by rival US firms in terms of “high-end GPUs” used for AI model...

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3 w. ago Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate

A new reasoning model developed by a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up – with its performance exceeding OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in a number of metrics – has fanned fresh debate about another DeepSeek moment and the trajectory of America’s AI supremacy. Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an...

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3 w. ago Tesla launches another new Model Y trim at a bargain price with massive range

Tesla launches another new Model Y trim at a bargain price with massive range  Teslarati

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4 w. ago China’s Moonshot AI launches new model lauded as No 1 among open

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot AI has released a new reasoning variant of its open-source Kimi K2 model that has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in several benchmarks, eliciting high praise from industry experts on social media. The Beijing-based start-up on Thursday said Kimi K2 Thinking was now accessible via Kimi.com and the model’s application programming interface (API), allowing developers and enterprises to use the model’s functionalities into...

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