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Explained

A $16 AI Training Run Built Six Models Nobody Had Made Yet

A Hugging Face tool called ML Intern let one developer train, evaluate and publish six specialist AI models in a couple of days, spending less than the cost of a restaurant meal.

4 min read
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AI Business

Alibaba Built Its Own AI Chip and Wants 20 Gigawatts of Data Centres by 2032

At its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 chip, a 20-gigawatt data centre target, and confirmed its next frontier model is already in training.

3 min read
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AI Security

Perplexity's new hybrid AI keeps your sensitive files on your Mac while still using cloud intelligence

A built-in privacy filter decides in real time which parts of a task stay local and which go to the cloud. Lawyers, finance teams and healthcare workers are the target audience.

4 min read
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Science & Space

Can an AI learn your taste? One researcher taught a coding model to paint watercolours

A language model writes JavaScript code that renders loose, handmade-looking watercolour paintings. The results went viral. Now the full training recipe is open for anyone to run.

4 min read
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Explained

A 27-billion-parameter AI model you can run at home just matched cloud-only rivals on coding tests

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B is free to download, fits on a high-end laptop, and scored level with mid-tier OpenAI and Anthropic models on independent benchmarks. Developers are calling it the clearest sign yet that frontier-grade AI is moving off the cloud and onto personal hardware.

5 min read
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Frontier Labs

Chinese AI Labs Now Dominate Open-Source Models. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Say.

A Hugging Face data deep-dive covering January to August 2026 finds Chinese labs releasing the biggest open models by far, while the tools developers actually depend on are years-old American ones that rarely make headlines.

5 min read
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Policy

China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny

A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.

3 min read
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AI Business

Apple Picks Alibaba and Baidu AI for iPhones in China, and Their Shares Jumped

China's two biggest AI players will power Apple's smart features for Chinese users, after Beijing gave the green light this week.

3 min read
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AI Business

Apple Is Talking to the Startup That Squeezes Giant AI Into an iPhone

PrismML says it shrunk a 54-gigabyte AI model down to under 4 gigabytes. Apple is paying close attention.

3 min read
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AI Business

Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI

Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. For Apple, it's a meaningful win in one of its biggest markets.

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