DeepSeek, China's AI model: News & Discussion

[ChillVein]

GLM-5.2 level with 284B parameters!

 

[ChillVein]

Deepseek V4-Pro-Official comes out in early August 2026

 

[JsCh]

As well as this,

Global Launch: Dreamina Seedance 2.5 is now live!

Our most cinematic video model yet has arrived, and Dreamina AI is your official platform. Step into a new era of precision control and long-take storytelling:

· Native 30s videos in a single generation
· A new interactive editing experience: reshape any part of the frame
· Long video mode: up to 3 minutes, with consistency that holds throughout
· Dreamina AI plugins for Maya and Blender, built for film-grade production pipelines
· Up to 50 multimodal references, now with support for 3D white models and green-screen footage — bringing AI generation into real production workflows
· More true-to-life lighting and shadows, richer motion detail, and precise timestamp control down to 1 second

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[Beijingwalker]

China’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model Makers​

By Bloomberg News
August 4, 2026 at 12:38 PM GMT+8

A flurry of model launches from China’s AI sector is rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley and creating what’s been described as a death zone for anyone without frontier-pushing technology or market-breaking pricing.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. became the latest in a parade of Chinese debuts hitting the top of global benchmarks with its Qwen3.8-Max this week, its most advanced model to date that appeared to match or exceed Anthropic PBC’s flagship Fable 5. Two weeks earlier, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 showed performance comparable to the priciest US options built on a much humbler budget, sparking fresh questions over the effectiveness of US chip sanctions intended to slow China’s tech ascent.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/china-s-ai-blitz-creates-death-zone-for-rival-us-model-makers

 

[lightning f57]

Alibaba releasing Qwen 3.8 max and open weights for that and Qwen 3.8 27B next week - damn wow. Big respect to the Chinese labs.