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After DeepSeek R1, there’s new Claude 4 level model from China that outperforms DeepSeek v3, Qwen and OpenAI GPT-4.1 Meet Kimi k2 – 1 trillion parameter model purpose-built for agentic workflows with native MCP integration. 100% Opensource and FREE to try. Let that sink in. https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1943694224584818808

Huawei shows off AI computing system to rival Nvidia’s top product | Reuters https://archive.md/Gf14F

🆕 Say hello to kimi-k2-turbo-preview Same model. Same context. NOW 4× FASTER. ⚡️ From 10 tok/s to 40 tok/s. 💰 Limited-Time Launch Price (50% off until Sept 1) – $0.30 / million input tokens (cache hit) – $1.20 / million input tokens (cache miss) – $5.00 / million output https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1951168907131355598

Chinese companies allegedly smuggled in $1bn worth of Nvidia AI chips in the last three months, despite increasing export controls — some companies are already flaunting future B300 availability | Tom’s Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-companies-allegedly-smuggled-in-usd1bn-worth-of-nvidia-ai-chips-in-the-last-three-months-despite-increasing-export-controls-some-companies-are-already-flaunting-future-b300-availability

Introducing Stargate Norway | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

OpenAI’s Stargate data center project hits speed bumps https://archive.md/1oW1s

RT @carlothinks: Ex-Alibaba CTO just made the boldest claim about AI & global power: “China is building the future of AI, not Silicon Vall…”” / X https://x.com/glennko/status/1950642750916792580

There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing. In the startup world, we know momentum”” / X https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1950941108000964654

This week’s letter from Andrew Ng in The Batch asks a blunt question: Can surging performance from China’s open-weights models and home-grown chips let it overtake the U.S. in AI? He lays out the data behind China’s momentum, explains why Washington’s new action plan is helpful”” / X https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1951354901843288546

RT @OpenRouterAI: Qwen3 Coder has now passed Grok 4 in the Programming prompt rankings Tied with Kimi! https://x.com/huybery/status/1949270432567460309

Alibaba to launch AI-powered smart glasses creating rival to Meta https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/alibaba-ai-smart-glasses-creates-rival-to-meta.html

RT @Alibaba_Wan: 🚀 Introducing Wan2.2: The World’s First Open-Source MoE-Architecture Video Generation Model with Cinematic Control! 🔥 Key…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1949832988834873417

DreamVVT: Mastering Realistic Video Virtual Try-On in the Wild via a Stage-Wise Diffusion Transformer Framework virtu-lab.github.io https://virtu-lab.github.io/

Exclusive | SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground – WSJ https://archive.md/Aadh3

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Proud to announce our multi-year collaboration with OpenAI as a global services partner. Together, we’ll deliver transformative, scalable AI solutions—combining Open AI’s AI models with Globant’s digital engineering and AI delivery frameworks. Learn more here: https://x.com/migoya/status/1948751958010937549

UK and ChatGPT maker OpenAI sign new strategic partnership | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-chatgpt-maker-openai-sign-new-strategic-partnership-2025-07-21/

xAI is signing the safety portion of the EU AI Act Code of Practice, not the other portions including the copyright portion.”” / X https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1950831617972519057

And @Microsoft!”” / X https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/1951270687957553235

EU AI Act: General-Purpose AI Code of Practice · Final Version
https://code-of-practice.ai/?section=safety-security

Yoshua Bengio on X: “I’ve been thrilled to see the support for the Safety & Security Chapter of the Code of Practice. Most frontier AI companies have now signed on to it: @AnthropicAI, @Google, @MistralAI, @OpenAI, @xAI Why this is important: 🧵 1/6″ / X
https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/1951263044056588677

RT @jiqizhixin: ByteDance is exploring diffusion LLMs too! 👀 Seed Diffusion Preview: a blazing-fast LLM for code, built on discrete-state…”” / X https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1951173073266417705

RT @jaseweston: 🌿Introducing MetaCLIP 2 🌿 📝: https://x.com/ylecun/status/1951290110189637967

Lisan al Gaib on X: “horizon-alpha is by OpenAI, but extremely weak on LisanBench, even though it had 5 trials per word instead of just 1 it gets beaten by qwen3-30b-a3b you can tell it’s a very small model https://t.co/Lv6mrNbB9k” / X
https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950730582104604964

not even remotely close to o3-mini level”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950730792251891948

I’m now using Qwen3-Coder in Claude Code. Works with any model actually, but this is surely the best one currently. There are a bunch of proxies on GitHub that make this possible, but none worked well enough for me, so I implemented this myself using LiteLLM. Guide in comments: https://x.com/WolframRvnwlf/status/1948046368213176624

Kimi K2 – On-par with Claude 4, but 80% cheaper!! I connected Kimi K2 to Claude Code to get a sense of real performance (Kimi Code!) Overall findings: 1. Exceptional coding capability 2. Cost only 20% of Claude 4 (Huge!) 2. Only downside is API is a bit slow 🧵 Below is some https://x.com/jasonzhou1993/status/1944320164889284947

Qwen3 Coder has a 5.32% diff edit failure rate in Cline, based on real-world data. It’s right alongside Claude Sonnet 4 and Kimi K2 as an excellent model in performing diff edits. Not bad for an open-source model at $0.30/$1.20 per million input/output tokens 👀 https://x.com/cline/status/1949973297455599998

Deep agents with qwen3-coder!”” / X https://x.com/hwchase17/status/1951072092625240203

The small-sized Qwen3-Coder is here! This is a little gift prepared for local users🎁, it’s extremely fast, and it has basic agentic coding capabilities! Flash Coding!”” / X https://x.com/huybery/status/1950925963979796877

(Since I am on a benchmark theme today) The ARC team does well keeping AI labs honest about their benchmarks, including showing that Qwen’s big ARC-AGI performance doesn’t replicate But ARC-AGI also has a strong philosophy of what AI should do. We need other benchmarking efforts”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1948476524027404733

Step3 benchmarks at last. The first «DeepSeek-like» that’s strongly multimodal (Ernie disappointed). It’s very different from V3, too – another in-house attention, the logic around inference economics. A big release. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1951008169989382218

The U.S. AI Action Plan marks a key step toward American AI leadership, which reflects our “Promote, Unleash, Innovate” framework to advance innovation, infrastructure, and global AI standards.”” / X https://x.com/scale_AI/status/1948792706496692276

President Trump released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” along with executive orders directing agencies to favor “ideologically neutral” models, fast-track data-center permits, and promote U.S. AI exports. The roadmap promises federal support for open-weights https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1951055270357999775

Perplexity usage in India growing like 🔥 Keep it coming! Excited to keep improving the product and serve more people’s daily questions. The adoption is clear proof that search has changed forever.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1949701747557216444

ollama run qwen3-coder”” / X https://x.com/ollama/status/1951147035895480356

ollama run qwen3:30b https://x.com/ollama/status/1950291777216262259

horizon-alpha is by OpenAI, but extremely weak on LisanBench, even though it had 5 trials per word instead of just 1 it gets beaten by qwen3-30b-a3b you can tell it’s a very small model https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950730582104604964

RT @MistralAI: In our continued commitment to open-science, we are releasing the Voxtral Technical Report: https://x.com/GuillaumeLample/status/1950855212677075122

🚀 The Singapore Tourism Board partners with @OpenAI to drive the future of tourism with Advanced AI. A first in Asia, this collaboration marks a bold step toward an AI-powered travel future. 🌏 Read more: https://x.com/CountryBranding/status/1948643566215201114

Beijing‑based Moonshot AI released the Kimi K2 LLM family, providing open‑weights access (under a modified MIT license) to a one trillion‑parameter model. The fine‑tuned Kimi‑K2‑Instruct scores 53 percent on LiveCodeBench and 76.5 percent on AceBench, surpassing other https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1950183277161005418

There still does not exist an open model that consistently beats R1-0528 on hard coding. We’re on a plateau. All these models used similar compute, have similar active param count, near-identical architecture, and probably are trained on similar data. New ideas needed. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1951200161805312297

GLM-4.5 models are the latest addition to chinese frontier open-source models Blog: https://x.com/scaling01/status/1949825490488795275

If your org has a policy against using open weights models from China you’re at a significant competitive disadvantage.”” / X https://x.com/corbtt/status/1950334347971874943

China dropped these open-source models in July: – GLM-4.5 – GLM-4.5-Air – Wan-2.2 – Qwen3 Coder – Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 – Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 – Kimi K2 Meanwhile: – OpenAI still hasn’t released the open-source model – Anthropic is doing stricter rate limits – Meta might”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1950034092457939072

For anyone in AI, coding or research: this model is insane! Solving complex math and 256K-context easily: Alibaba dropped their most advanced AI brain yet: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507. It’s built for pure reasoning power. Here’s why this is wow: ✅ Solves harder problems. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1949156307950309686

RT @AlibabaGroup: Qwen3 is recognized as the #1 open model in the Arena🏆! Ranked #3 overall and #1 in Coding, Hard Prompts, and Math – a re…”” / X https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1951328014140129551

Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 · Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

GSPO is the most impressive Alibaba Qwen research paper to date, I think. They’ve started publishing strong stuff just months ago. New 235B-Thinking truly is comparable to R1-0528. I am more optimistic about Qwen than ever.”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1949601984308207781

The GSPO paper by @Alibaba_Qwen is already the third most popular one on @huggingface for the month of July. I suspect this will have a massive impact on the field! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1949934196148895799

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