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📢 BREAKING: China unveils first parallel optical computing chip, ‘Meteor-1’ The breakthrough is that Meteor-1 shifts compute from electrons to light, hitting 2,560 TOPS at 50 GHz by running 100 tasks in parallel on one chip. on par with Nvidia’s flagship GPUs and nearing the https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1937509077107482656
RT @kyleichan: China wants to be the global leader in AI by 2030. To achieve this, China is deploying industrial policy tools across the e…”” / X https://x.com/ylecun/status/1938573151421485348
US lawmakers launch No Adversarial AI Act banning AI models from 4 hostile nations across all federal agencies The bill bars federal agencies from using AI developed in China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. It also prohibits use on government devices without narrow exemptions https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1938054124899340326
Chinese military unveils mosquito-sized drones for battlefield missions https://interestingengineering.com/military/chinese-military-unveils-mosquito-sized-drones
The new Hailou 02 AI video model really does seem to have made huge strides in the “”gymnastics problem”” where fast flipping motions lead to distortion Here are the first three results of the “”a man in elaborate robes does a backflip while holding two pool noodles”” (a hard test!) https://x.com/emollick/status/1936091679850705019
China outpacing US in energy production RT @AlecStapp: Increasingly think this might be the most important chart in the world right now https://x.com/zacharynado/status/1938772489951408369
カプセルインタフェース：視聴覚や動き，力加減を伝え，全身リアル体験を実現 – CapsuleInterface: Full-Body Experience via Senses and Motion – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a46Uap367k
Image Edit is heating up in the Arena – 3 new models have been added! ✨ Flux-Kontext-Max by BFL ✨ Bagel by ByteDance ✨ Step1X-edit by StepFun This brings the Image Edit Arena to a total of 7, with more coming! Upload an image and test them out, let’s see what you think of https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1936100445585539482
UK government launches 54 million £ fund (over five years) to attract “global talent”. 54 million £ That’s half the signing bonus Meta is offering to get OpenAI talent.”” / X https://x.com/hkproj/status/1937002573241672151
Damn. China saw the DARPA dragonfly, and raised the CCP mosquito.”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1935832643263738230
Exciting evidence that RL can be incredibly sample efficient: when using GRPO to train a modified version of ART-E (agentic RAG task), we find that we’re able to get qwen2.5-14b to exceed gemini 2.5 flash performance with 1 training scenario, and exceed o3 with just 16! This https://x.com/corbtt/status/1937594932040204483
Wow! Tencent dropped Hunyuan A13B – 256K context, competitive to Qwen A22B & OAI O1, optimised for tool calling (agents) AND coding 🤩 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1938509495405035718
German data protection official wants Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores. Berlin’s data chief Meike Kamp filed a formal report after DeepSeek failed to show GDPR-level safeguards. She says Chinese law lets authorities reach any data held by local https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1938588222730224030
KerasHub lets you use any Hugging Face checkpoint for all top models like Llama, Gemma, Mistral, etc… Run your workflows in JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow – inference, LoRA fine-tuning, large-scale training from scratch Blog post: https://x.com/fchollet/status/1938208330062655678
If you come with a cursor for X startup idea, there is probably already a startup in YC. And as someone noted, the C in YC is Cursor :)”” / X https://x.com/madiator/status/1936983105556058144
BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7ndgylzzmo
Eurazeo leads $20 mln financing round for German AI firm aedifion | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/eurazeo-leads-20-mln-financing-round-german-ai-firm-aedifion-2025-06-23/
China’s Baidu eyes robotaxi expansion to Singapore, Malaysia | The Straits Times https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/chinas-baidu-eyes-robotaxi-expansion-to-singapore-and-malaysia
I really recommend watching The Geopolitics of AI Infrastructure by @dylan522p > Following the current trend and datacenter power demand, the US will be lacking ~88GW by 2028. For reference, 1 nuclear reactor provides ~1GW. There’s a long way to go! https://x.com/AymericRoucher/status/1937261555156156788
Researchers introduced STORM, a text-video model that trims video input to one-eighth the usual size yet still yields state-of-the-art scores. STORM inserts mamba layers between a SigLIP vision encoder and a Qwen2-VL language model: the mamba layers aggregate information across https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1936438967391453522
DeepSeek continues to have the most unhinged reasoning traces (“pacing mentally”) https://x.com/emollick/status/1937584454030983605
DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress, The Information reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-r2-launch-stalled-ceo-balks-progress-information-reports-2025-06-26/
Exclusive: DeepSeek aids China’s military and evaded export controls, US official says | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-aids-chinas-military-evaded-export-controls-us-official-says-2025-06-23/
Even deepseek uses Nous’ YaRN method to extend context length if you didnt know 😇”” / X https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1937373884610936854
RT @ruima: Most people assume China already sees itself as the world’s top manufacturing power. But that’s not how China sees it. China see…”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1938431456134537358
Pretty Insane – SoTA Text to Speech model capable of English AND Hindi – 3B Llama backbone – Apache 2.0 licensed 🔥 > Sub 80 ms latency > Supports both English, Hindi including code-mix > Runs in a free google colab too 🤯 Best part: They’re actively working on other languages https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1937903143565885878
Introducing Mistral Small 3.2, a small update to Mistral Small 3.1 to improve: – Instruction following: Small 3.2 is better at following precise instructions – Repetition errors: Small 3.2 produces less infinite generations or repetitive answers – Function calling: Small https://x.com/MistralAI/status/1936093325116781016
mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 · Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506
RT @MistralAI: Introducing Mistral Small 3.2, a small update to Mistral Small 3.1 to improve: – Instruction following: Small 3.2 is bett…”” / X https://x.com/cognitivecompai/status/1936349584009425099
small 3.2 is a cool update 🙂 from r/LocalLlama https://x.com/qtnx_/status/1936907862581682434
Managed to mostly fix Mistral 3.2 tool calling for GGUF / transformers! 1. 3.2 tool calling is different from 3.1 2. timedelta(days=1) (yesterday) changed with a if-else – supports 2024 to 2028 dates – so now word for word same sys prompt! 3. Made experimental FP8 quant as well!”” / X https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1936432257855840364
We have released Qwen-VLo, a unified model for understanding and generation, which can create many incredible things! https://x.com/huybery/status/1938639781988286957
RT @ryanmart3n: Announcing OpenThinker3-7B, the new SOTA open-data 7B reasoning model: improving over DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B by 33% on…”” / X https://x.com/ZhaiAndrew/status/1936528118724038668
Even though jina embeddings have always been really good, v4 looks like a big step up: – scaled up model (Roberta -> Qwen 2.5!) – multimodal – supports COLBERT style multi vector excited to try this https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1937357675072778567
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for LLM reasoning applies updates uniformly, lacking understanding of critical tokens. This paper from Qwen shows only high-entropy minority tokens are crucial “”forks”” in reasoning. Optimizing just these specific tokens https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1936633835774771242
German Startup Neura Robotics Eyes Up to €1 Billion Fundraising – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/german-startup-neura-robotics-eyes-up-to-1-billion-fundraising
NEURA Robotics just unveiled 4NE1 Gen3 at Automatica 2025 in Munich. Bloomberg recently reported that the German startup is seeking to raise up to €1B ($1.2B) in new funding. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1937493012264943830
Chinese embodied AI startup Galbot has raised $152M in a new round led by CATL and Puquan Capital, bringing total funding to $332M in just two years. Founded in 2023 by PKU professor Wang He, the startup is developing general-purpose embodied AI robots. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1937760135734239618
More humanoid robots from China! Beijing-based industrial robot maker ROKAE Robotics has unveiled two humanoid robot models. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1937926026514088103
