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Alibaba Tongyi has launched the Qwen3.7-Plus multimodal model, which unifies visual and language capabilities, enabling multimodal reasoning, visual programming, and browser automation. It can handle complex workflows such as full-stack app development. The model has ranked in the top five globally and first in China on the authoritative Vision Arena leaderboard.
Anthropic has completed a $6.5 billion Series H funding round, bringing its post-funding valuation to $96.5 billion (approximately 656 billion RMB). This round was led by Altimeter Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon, which has announced a $5 billion investment.
Tencent has recently launched an AI game creation platform called "Project Craft," aimed at simplifying the game development process, supporting various game types, and providing a rich 2D/3D asset library and AIGC capabilities. The platform has also partnered with Qianhai, Shenzhen to launch a "Developer Vanguard Camp" offline training program, offering learning and practice opportunities for the first batch of test users.
Alipay has recently released a full-stack AI-native payment system, introducing the world's first Token Pay service, AI Wallet, along with the previously launched AI Pay and AI Collect. These services form a comprehensive infrastructure for the smart agent economy, covering authorization, payment, settlement, and management. AI Pay has completed 300 million smart agent payments, supporting 95% of mainstream smart agent frameworks, with a loss rate reduced to one in a billion. AI Collect enables all network agents to automatically purchase merchant services, making it easier for personal experiences to be monetized through agents.
FaceWall AI, in collaboration with Tsinghua University and the OpenBMB open-source community, has released the BitCPM-CANN model, China's first 1.58-bit ternary large model fully trained end-to-end on the Huawei Ascend domestic computing platform. The model comes in four sizes, ranging from 0.5B to 8B parameters, and uses a quantization-aware training approach. This results in a 6x reduction in memory usage during inference while maintaining a model capability retention rate of 90%–97.2%.
The Zhipu Open Platform has released the GLM-5.1 high-speed version API, GLM-5.1-highspeed, which achieves an output speed of 400 tokens/s, setting a new global speed record for large model APIs. This API, jointly developed by Zhipu and the TileRT team, is the first to achieve flagship-level capabilities and ultra-low latency in domestic large models. It is now available to some enterprise customers.
ZCube, a network architecture jointly developed by ZhiPu, Yuxun Network, and Tsinghua University, addresses the congestion issues in PD (Parameter Distribution) separated inference by eliminating the Spine layer and adopting a flat topology with single/multi-track hybrid access. Practical tests with GLM-5.1 coding show that ZCube reduces the cost of switches and optical modules by 33%, increases GPU inference throughput by 15%, and reduces the P99 Time to First Token (TTFT) latency by 40.6%, providing a robust foundation for the next generation of large-scale inference clusters.
At the I/O 2026 Developer Conference, Google launched multiple AI products, including the new flagship model Gemini 3.5 Flash, the all-purpose model Gemini Omni Flash, AI Mode search upgrade, AI glasses, and the Antigravity 2.0 development platform along with the personal agent Gemini Spark. These product launches mark Google's official entry into the Gemini era driven by intelligent agents.
Lucius has completed a million-dollar angel round financing led by MingShi Ventures, with Blue Lion Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor. The platform addresses the issue of organizational memory loss in enterprises through its core product, AI Teammate, and has served over 30 clients. A notable case is Dubbing AI, where the community self-resolution rate jumped from 29% to 88% after integrating AI Teammate.
OpenHuman has been topping the GitHub Trending list for several days, garnering over 9k stars. This open-source AI agent requires no user training and can connect to 118+ services (such as Gmail, GitHub, etc.) with a single click. It automatically syncs data every 20 minutes and builds a local memory tree in the style of Capas, while also being compatible with Obsidian. The built-in TokenJuice technology significantly reduces token consumption and supports virtual avatar participation in meetings as well as autonomous background execution.
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