2026-02-10
Claude opus 4.6 (adaptive) takes the lead on WeirdML with 77.9% ahead of gpt-5.2 (xhigh) at 72.2%. It sets a new high score on 3 tasks including scoring 73% on the hardest task (digits_generalize) up from 59%. Opus 4.6 is extremely token hungry and uses an average of 32k [image]
Nikkei Asia
Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on “red envelope” freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year
HONG KONG — China's biggest AI companies are releasing new models and handing out “red envelope” …
The gap that chinese open models (deepseek v4, glm-5 and qwen-3.5) need to cross to reach the frontier seems to be growing fast! It will be very interesting to see how the next generation shapes up (rumors say they may show up soon), and how this gap will evolve in time. [image]
Nikkei Asia
Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on “red envelope” freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year
HONG KONG — China's biggest AI companies are releasing new models and handing out “red envelope” …
The gap that chinese open models (deepseek v4, glm-5 and qwen-3.5) need to cross to reach the frontier seems to be growing fast! It will be very interesting to see how the next generation shapes up (rumors say they may show up soon), and how this gap will evolve in time. [image]
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ByteDance debuts Seedance 2.0, a new version of its AI video generation model that can produce multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users
Claude opus 4.6 (adaptive) takes the lead on WeirdML with 77.9% ahead of gpt-5.2 (xhigh) at 72.2%. It sets a new high score on 3 tasks including scoring 73% on the hardest task (digits_generalize) up from 59%. Opus 4.6 is extremely token hungry and uses an average of 32k [image]
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Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model GLM-5 on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to debut GLM-5 later this week
Zhipu, one of China's prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter …
The gap that chinese open models (deepseek v4, glm-5 and qwen-3.5) need to cross to reach the frontier seems to be growing fast! It will be very interesting to see how the next generation shapes up (rumors say they may show up soon), and how this gap will evolve in time. [image]
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Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model GLM-5 on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to debut GLM-5 later this week
Zhipu, one of China's prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter …
2026-02-09
The gap that chinese open models (deepseek v4, glm-5 and qwen-3.5) need to cross to reach the frontier seems to be growing fast! It will be very interesting to see how the next generation shapes up (rumors say they may show up soon), and how this gap will evolve in time. [image]
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ByteDance debuts Seedance 2.0, a new version of its AI video generation model that can produce multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users
ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0, unveiled over the weekend, is generating a lot of buzz on social media, with some calling it a game changer.