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  • Chinese AI models festoon spring festival a year after De…

    Chinese AI models festoon spring festival a year after De…

    As China prepares for Lunar New Year holidays starting on Sunday, rivals to DeepSeek are scrambling to release artificial-intelligence m… As China prepares for Lunar New Year holidays starting on Sunday, rivals to DeepSeek are scrambling to release artificial-intelligence models a year after it burst onto the scene with its game-changing R1 and V3 models. With DeepSeek set to launch its next-generation V4 ‌model soon, according to tech news site The Information, many other Chinese AI firms have released ​or are preparing to launch their own ‌models in the hopes of stealing the spotlight — or at least avoid being off-guard again ‌during this year's ⁠Spring Festival. Below are the companies ‌and models looking to make a Spring Festival ‌splash. The Hangzhou-based startup's V4 would replace last year's V3 model, which powered the AI assistant app that overtook ChatGPT to ⁠become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the US Investors and industry insiders are also on the lookout for R2, successor to the R1 model. This week DeepSeek fuelled anticipation when its web and mobile chatbot upgraded its "context window" — the amount of information it can remember and handle in a single task, from 128,000 to1 mn tokens, the unit of data processed by the AI model. This means the chatbot can now process book-length passages of text to answer a single user command. The makers of short-video ​platform TikTok released the Doubao 2.0 chatbot, the company said on Saturday. The new model is capable of deep thinking and long, multi-step task execution that matches the capabilities of US rival OpenAI's GPT 5.2 and Google's Gemini 3 Pro, Bytedance said. Doubao ‌is China's most popular AI chatbot app, ⁠in terms of weekly active ​users, according to data published by Quest Mobile in December. Thursday's release of video-generation AI model ​Seedance 2.0 has generated comparisons to DeepSeek's global rise, going viral on Chinese social media and drawing widespread praise on X, including from the platform's owner, Elon Musk. Seedance 2.0 can produce high-quality cinematic videos based on a few prompts, or even one. The tech giant released picture-generation model Seedream 5.0 Lite on Friday. Alibaba, the first Chinese firm to respond to DeepSeek's viral ascent last year, with Qwen 2.5-Max, is preparing to launch Qwen 3.5. The e-commerce giant's Qwen app is riding a wave of growing domestic usage after it spent 3bn yuan ($400mn) last week on a coupon giveaway campaign to promote "agentic commerce", where AI handles consumers' online shopping. This drove more than 120mn consumer orders in the six days through Wednesday, the company said. Zhipu ‌AI released its open-source GLM-5 model on ‌Wednesday, with enhanced coding capabilities and the ability ⁠to perform long-running agent tasks. Zhipu is considered one of China's "AI tigers" — promising startups vying with the US to win ⁠the AI race. Zhipu went public on the ⁠Hong Kong Stock Exchange last month, alongside rival MiniMax, another AI tiger. Both stocks have rallied strongly as investors bet on the companies benefiting from China's AI boom. Zhipu plans a secondary listing in Shanghai, a regulatory filing on Friday showed. MiniMax released its M2.5 open-source model on its overseas agent website on Wednesday. The company's Hong Kong listing raised HK$4.8bn ($620mn), higher than Zhipu's $558mn. Shanghai-based MiniMax has developed popular apps like Hailuo AI, a video generation tool, and Talkie, a ​character interaction app that enables users to engage with AI-powered virtual personas. Tencent's Hunyuan team on Tuesday released a low-storage, compressed AI model, HY-1.8B-2Bit, designed to be used on consumer hardware including mobile phones. iFlytek on Wednesday released Spark X2, trained entirely on Chinese-made chips. The company said the upgrade focuses on practical deployment in sectors including education, healthcare, automotive and agent-based applications. NetEase Youdao on Wednesday launched LobsterAI, a desktop-level personal assistant agent that can perform tasks such as information retrieval, scheduling and data analysis by executing workflows locally on a user's computer after authorisation. The product supports mobile and PC connections and allows remote interaction via enterprise apps popular among Chinese companies such as DingTalk and Feishu. Embodied-intelligence startup ‌Dexmal on Tuesday unveiled DM0, ​an AI model designed for robot-related scenarios. DM0 integrates multimodal internet data with driving, navigation and robotic operation data, and was trained across multiple robot platforms. Summary This report covers the latest…

  • The Windows Phone keyboard is still unmatched

    The Windows Phone keyboard was ahead of its time. Ever since Apple brought us the multitouch keyboard on the original iPhone, which used a strong prediction engine combined with the…

  • KUXIU X40 Turbo: Pocketable 3-In-1 MagSafe Charger

    KUXIU X40 Turbo: Pocketable 3-In-1 MagSafe Charger

    Small chargers usually promise convenience. The KUXIU X40 Turbo actually delivers it, while quietly rewriting the rules about what speed and portability look like when Apple devices share one compact…

  • This 16 year old phone beat my $1,000 flagship camera

    The 2009 Palm Pixi had an archaic camera but the photos it took were full of emotion and character. My Pixel 10 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro take amazing pictures…

  • Affordable 2 kWh power station with 2,800 W and UPS: Afer…

    Affordable 2 kWh power station with 2,800 W and UPS: Afer…

    Improvements and savings. | With a market price of less than $800, the Aferiy P280 is definitely a bargain in the 2 kWh power station class. Our review of the…

  • The Google Pixel 10 Pro Might Have the Best Phone Display…

    While lagging behind in other areas, Google’s flagship is a standout in showing gameplay. Google launched its latest Pixel 10 series, including the standard model and the more powerful Pixel 10…

  • Stop Using Face ID Right Now. Here’s Why

    Stop Using Face ID Right Now. Here’s Why

    Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. Using a face scan…

  • Stop Using Face ID Right Now. Here’s Why

    Stop Using Face ID Right Now. Here’s Why

    Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. Using a face scan…

  • The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remot…

    Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn’t trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, he…

  • AppBITS: Drink More with HiWater

    AppBITS: Drink More with HiWater

    After a fainting spell left Adam Engst with a doctor’s order to drink 100 ounces daily, he turned to HiWater. This elegant iPhone and Apple Watch app tracks hydration and…