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What to Know About Chinese AI Models

Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the gap with U.S. frontier systems. This analysis examines what their growing ...
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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that sp ...
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SIGGRAPH 2026 Explores the Future of Robotics Through Computer Graphics, Simulation, and Creative Expression

Computer graphics and robotics have been converging for years. At SIGGRAPH 2026, that convergence takes center stage as robots learn, move, create, and interact through technologies originally ...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
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China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips

Chinese tech firm Meituan launched a new artificial intelligence model on Tuesday that it said was the first of its size to be trained using domestically developed computer chips. The country is ...