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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3 d. ago China’s DeepSeek challenges Google DeepMind with new AI model

Artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has unveiled its most powerful model variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which is said to match Google DeepMind’s new Gemini 3 Pro model in certain tasks, despite the Chinese firm having limited access to advanced semiconductor chips. The achievement by the open-source lab has sparked extensive discussion within the AI research community as it coincides with the prestigious annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS. In its...

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1 week ago AI Singapore picks Alibaba’s Qwen over Meta to drive new regional language model

AI Singapore (AISG) – a national programme by the city state of Singapore to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence – has chosen to base its latest large language model on Alibaba’s Qwen, in a significant win for the Chinese technology giant as it promotes its AI services in Southeast Asia. AI Singapore, designed to enhance the city state’s national AI capabilities, had released a new model, Qwen-SEA-LION-v4, based on Alibaba’s Qwen3-32B foundation model to better address the...

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1 week ago AI Singapore picks Alibaba’s Qwen to drive new regional language model

AI Singapore (AISG) – a national programme by the city state of Singapore to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence – has chosen to base its latest large language model on Alibaba’s Qwen, in a significant win for the Chinese technology giant as it promotes its AI services in Southeast Asia. AI Singapore, designed to enhance the city state’s national AI capabilities, had released a new model, Qwen-SEA-LION-v4, based on Alibaba’s Qwen3-32B foundation model to better address the...

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1 week ago Anthropic says its new AI model is better at coding and office work

Anthropic is rolling out a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model that is designed to be better at automating coding and office tasks, part of an effort to compete with OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google for business customers. The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, was more capable than previous versions at software engineering work, like fixing bugs, without needing a user’s help, Anthropic said. Opus 4.5, released on Monday, is also intended to be better at carrying out complicated...

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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 Volkswagen bets on EV developed with Xpeng to regain ground in China

Volkswagen Group is poised to launch a new electric vehicle (EV) next year that leverages Chinese technology to compete with established domestic players like BYD and Geely in the world’s largest automotive market. The German carmaker, which has seen a decline in market share in mainland China since 2020 amid a rapid adoption of EVs, said on Tuesday that its coming SUV, co-developed with Chinese partner Xpeng, would be its most intelligent model to date. The announcement follows the inclusion of...

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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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