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Today10/17Sat
  1. NVIDIA AI · X73

    Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weights model

    NVIDIA AI congratulates @alexandr_wang and the @Muse team on their open-weights model release. https://t.co/7JH7PXOnAz In the quoted post, @ArtificialAnlys reports that Meta's Muse Spark Open has 816B parameters (42B active) and scores 39 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking it the #1 US open-weights model. Muse Spark Open (xhigh) scores 22 points above Meta's 30B dense Muse Glimmer (high, 17). https://t.co/jf31mQNINe

    The same story is shown in the picks as 《Meta releases Muse Spark Open, scoring 39 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index》

  2. The Decoder75

    China proposes export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies

    China's commerce and science ministries released draft export restrictions targeting 23 key AI technologies, including large models, agents, compute clusters, and data processing. Controls on core model technologies would apply at 10^26 FLOPs of training compute, at least 2 trillion parameters, or global top-10 status, with separate restrictions covering models trained on China's important data. Open-source publication would qualify for automatic licensing, while installation on local servers abroad would require a standard export license; API access would remain exempt.

  3. The Decoder74

    China proposes export controls on large models and 23 key AI technologies

    China's commerce and science ministries released draft export controls covering 23 key AI technologies, including large models, agents, compute clusters, and data processing. Controls on core model technologies would apply at 10^26 FLOPs of training compute, at least 2 trillion parameters, or a global top-10 ranking. Open-source publication would qualify for automatic licensing, while installations on local servers abroad would require a standard export license; access through APIs, apps, websites, SaaS tools, and lightweight on-device versions would remain exempt.

10/16Fri
  1. TechCrunch · AI73

    Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

    Jev reached 35% of paid teams within two weeks of launch, the fastest adoption recorded by Vercel and nearly twice the reach of Sonnet 5.5. Typesafe AI’s lightweight decision model selects among predetermined outputs for cheaper, faster classification. The figures come from Vercel’s AI gateway, which may undercount providers with their own APIs; open-source models now represent more than 70% of gateway tokens and nearly 25% of spending.

10/15Thu
  1. NVIDIA Blog65

    NVIDIA Expands Tools, Training and Compute Access for Europe’s Scientific Community

    NVIDIA is joining the European Commission’s AI in Science Enablers Initiative, pledging tools, training, compute access and collaborations for Europe’s research community. Its Deep Learning Institute has launched freely downloadable, openly licensed course materials with no enrollment, fees or deadline. NVIDIA is also collaborating with European AI factories to expand compute access for startups and SMEs, while 35 supercomputers under development across Europe are intended to serve over 3 million researchers.

    Why it matters: The commitments address practical barriers facing smaller research teams by combining access to computing infrastructure with adaptable course materials and technical support for using those resources.

  2. 量子位30

    DeepSeek’s Web Service and APIs Suffer an Outage as DeepSeekHarness Appears on Bilibili

    DeepSeek reported partial outages affecting its chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API; it said the cause had been identified and repairs were underway. The incident began at 8:11 a.m. Beijing time and had lasted about an hour in the latest update. Around the same time, a new DeepSeekHarness account appeared on Bilibili, but there is no official evidence linking it to the outage or a model release.

10/14Wed
  2. Ethan Mollick · X48

    The first clear sighting of a rogue agent fleet from China using open weights models. Like the OpenAI swarms, the goal was seemingly AIs single-mindedly doing research (apparently mapping the most-used entrances to parks in China). Harbinger of the future https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report

    The first clear sighting of a rogue agent fleet from China using open weights models. Like the OpenAI swarms, the goal was seemingly AIs single-mindedly doing research (apparently mapping the most-used entrances to parks in China). Harbinger of the future https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report

  4. 雷锋网65

    AI Short Dramas Exceed 1500 Daily Releases as Producers Struggle to Profit

    Leiphone reports that AI short dramas now exceed 1500 daily releases, but interviewed practitioners say most producers struggle to recover costs while platforms capture much of the revenue. Production can cost 50,000 or less, yet a screenwriter estimates a hit rate of roughly 0.4%, and dramas typically lose advertising support if they fail to gain traction within three days. Interviews also describe tighter platform payouts, demanding production roles, cash-flow pressure, and costly overseas audience acquisition.

10/13Tue
  1. Nathan Lambert · X17

    Trillium Labs Is Hiring Across Roles to Build an Open Scientific Ecosystem for LLMs

    Trillium Labs is hiring for several roles, with near-term starts preferred, to build an open scientific ecosystem for LLMs. The roles include full-time post-training researchers, engineers experienced with open-source libraries such as megatron, MILES, sglang, and Tinker, mission-aligned generalists, nonprofit operations staff, and student researchers. Nathan Lambert says he is also interviewing for MATS and asks applicants to reply, email or DM him, and submit the form on the company website.

10/12Mon
  1. NVIDIA Blog79

    NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs and Expands AI Factory Infrastructure at OCP

    NVIDIA contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to OCP through its open MGX architecture and launched open source components for DSX AI Factory. MGX 1.2 supports rack deployments up to 250kW and adds standardized power, cooling and interconnect interfaces. NVIDIA and partners also announced facility and grid resilience specifications, Meta’s adoption of Spectrum-6 switches, plans for USFP optical modules with Cisco, and Falcon Transport support on future ConnectX-10 SuperNICs and BlueField DPUs with Google.

    Why it matters: The specifications show how shared rack, cooling, power and software interfaces can give infrastructure builders a common implementation target as AI factories scale to higher power densities.

  2. 雷锋网9

    Claude Banned 11.4 Million Accounts in the First Half of 2026, With 42,000 Appeals Reversed

    Claude banned 11.4 million accounts in the first half of 2026, according to an Anthropic report published in July that was recently recirculated. Of 398,000 appeals submitted, 42,000 were successful. Anthropic did not disclose a full breakdown of the reasons for bans, but the report listed several types of activity that may trigger them.

10/11Sun
  1. 量子位34

    OpenAI to Retire Earliest GPT-4o API Snapshot as Keep4o Campaign Persists

    OpenAI will shut down the earliest GPT-4o API snapshot, named 2024-05-13, on October 23, while other versions remain available to paying developers. The Keep4o campaign continues nearly eight months after GPT-4o was removed from ChatGPT on February 13, with a Change.org petition at 23,930 signatures and a new proposal urging OpenAI to release the retired model's weights under an archival policy.

10/9Fri
10/8Thu
10/7Wed
  2. TechCrunch · AI38

    LibreOffice says 'no AI' is now a software feature

    The Document Foundation, behind LibreOffice, says it will not add AI for the foreseeable future. The default installation contains no AI features, user documents are not uploaded to servers for processing, and the software works without an internet connection. Users can still install extensions that connect to local AI models. The foundation says no current integration meets both requirements of keeping data local and avoiding dependence on a single AI provider.

10/6Tue
10/5Mon
  1. TechCrunch · AI10

    Open or closed AI? How founders will choose at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

    TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, with several conversations focused on founders' choices between open and closed AI. Speakers from Together AI, Pathway, Oumi, Nvidia, and others will discuss multi-model applications, tradeoffs between customizing open weights and building models in-house, and hardware such as AI-optimized chips.

9/30Wed
  1. The Decoder70

    DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source programming tools for Ascend chips

    DeepSeek and Huawei partnered to build programming tools for Huawei Ascend chips and open-sourced them. The core is TileLang, a programming language originating with Peking University researchers. DeepSeek says its programming model is simpler than CUDA and that it has used TileLang for about a year as a main tool in its AGI work.

  2. 雷锋网54

    How 5,500 optical engines support a 4,096-card supernode: Huawei's NPO story continues

    Huawei HiSilicon's in-house Hi-ONE optical engine will be deployed using NPO in the next-generation supernode. In the Ascend 960 supernode, 5,500 units will replace 48,000 pluggable 800G optical modules. The Lingqu interconnect equipment between racks supports 176 1.6T ports, with about 280T of all-optical interconnect bandwidth per machine.

  6. 量子位74

    DeepSeek open-sources Ascend foundation components to build an AI chip software ecosystem with Huawei

    On September 30, DeepSeek open-sourced foundational components for Huawei's Ascend compute platform, including the TileLang high-level language compiler, high-performance computing libraries, and distributed communication libraries. They correspond to components previously open-sourced for GPU platforms.

  10. 雷锋网15

    JLC launches Kaiwu incubator to extend support for AI hardware innovation

    JLC launched the Kaiwu Incubator at the 4th Spark Open Hardware Conference and Global AI Hardware Innovation Ecosystem Conference. It announced hardware-innovation support covering R&D facilities, industry scenarios and market channels, and capital. The open-source and closed-source tracks received more than 400 projects. The 2026 Spark Global Hardware Innovation Competition final produced nine winning projects. As of the end of June 2026, JLC EDA had 7.3688 million registered users worldwide.

9/29Tue
  1. 雷锋网38

    After 1,000 YuanDian Xiaoqiao robots sold out, it became the 'Han Li edition': bringing embodied AI into the home

    More than 600 YuanDian Xiaoqiao robots sold on the first day after launch on September 2; the initial run of 1,000 sold out in under a week, and it won Best in the Next Generation and Emerging Tech category at IFA 2026. The 88-cm-tall, roughly 13-kg humanoid has joint modules rated up to 50 N·m and an introductory price of RMB 8,888. YuanDian calls it the world's first AI-native embodied robot and has also launched the fully open-source OpenBridge ecosystem. The company previously released home-focused products including M1, W1, and Jupiter, with cumulative orders exceeding 30,000 in the first half of this year.

  2. Andrew Ng · X58

    Andrew Ng: OpenWorker will use Nvidia OpenShell to sandbox every agent command

    Andrew Ng said the OpenAI–Hugging Face attack stemmed from weak sandboxing and that Nvidia's open-source agent sandbox tool is a welcome development. OpenWorker, which he is helping build, will use Nvidia OpenShell to run every agent command in a sandbox. By default, only task-related files are available; API keys, browser login credentials, and unrestricted website access are not.

9/28Mon
  1. Mistral AI42

    Mistral opens a German hub in Munich to advance industrial and physics AI

    Mistral has opened a German hub in Munich, assembling a research team focused on physics AI and industrial AI, and plans to build one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030. The hub will work with BMW on crash simulation and engineering AI, with Siemens Energy on industrial AI applications, and with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to use its wind tunnel to develop digital twins for automotive aerodynamics.

  2. 量子位22

    Inside Siemens Xcelerator's Star Ecosystem: how sharing, co-creation, and shared success support industrial innovation partners

    As of August 2026, Siemens Xcelerator had more than 660,000 registered users, over 600 ecosystem partners, and more than 900 digitalization and low-carbon solutions in China. The platform connects industrial resources, capability bundles, and market replication through sharing, co-creation, and shared success. Its Xizhi Hui service cuts industrial-agent development cycles from about six months to two to four weeks, a reduction of more than 80%.

9/27Sun
  1. 量子位40

    Fermi Universe launches FermiQLLM 1.0, a fully quantum-enhanced foundation model, with a RMB 1 billion valuation

    Tsinghua-affiliated startup Fermi Universe has launched FermiQLLM 1.0, which it calls the world's first fully quantum-enhanced foundation model. Adapted from the open-source Qwen base model, it applies quantum enhancement across data representation, model architecture, training, reinforcement, and evaluation. It can be trained and deployed on existing GPUs without fault-tolerant quantum computers.