InAgent achieves 90.2% on OSWorld: the computer-use agent gap narrows for the Chinese stack
A Chinese CUA becomes the first to surpass 90% on OSWorld. The gap with US frontier labs is now a harness gap, not a model gap.
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MiniMax H3 open-source: Chinese lab breaks the price of full-modal
MiniMax releases H3, an open-source full-modal (text, image, audio, video) model at one-third the price of competitors. The AI video market stops being binary: expensive closed-source or weak open-source.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 12 14
Inside Anthropic's engineering: the AI lab keeps dogfooding, quietly
The Pragmatic Engineer publishes a "deepdive" on Anthropic's internal engineering. The surprising read: "ever more" code review and testing by AI, but the two-pizza teams hold. Smoothing, not flipping.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 8 10
FLUX 3: Black Forest Labs announces a multimodal flow model that surpasses Seedance 2.0 and Gemini
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3, its new generation of multimodal flow matching models. The lab claims superior results to Seedance 2.0 and Gemini on internal benchmarks. It remains to be confirmed by third-party evaluations.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 8 8
Moonshot suspends new Kimi K3 subscriptions: launch-week demand outruns capacity
Days after Kimi K3 went live, Moonshot has paused new paid subscriptions - a rare public admission that a Chinese frontier lab hit its own inference ceiling on launch week.
Jul 19, 2026 at 23:50 14 13
Kimi K3 pricing: China's frontier goes premium, ends the race-to-the-bottom
Moonshot has priced Kimi K3 at 3-15× the tokens of DeepSeek - the first time a Chinese frontier lab has publicly asked for a premium against its domestic peers, and a break with the price-war narrative.
Jul 18, 2026 at 11:11 20 9
Zhipu crosses the $100 million revenue mark: the commercialization of the Chinese frontier enters the numbers
Zhipu would generate $1 billion in annual revenue according to leaks. First Chinese frontier lab with measurable commercial traction at this scale.
Jul 17, 2026 at 09:19 29 8
Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab ships its first open-weights model - a 975B MoE, Apache-2.0, multimodal
The first open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) is here: Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B active), multimodal, Apache-2.0 license. The most discreet box in the frontier scene enters the open market through the front door.
Jul 16, 2026 at 21:46 25 8
Anthropic files for an October IPO: the lab that made caution its selling point tests public markets
Anthropic is preparing a US listing as early as October, according to Tech in Asia. The number nobody has yet: at what price the "safety-first" narrative sells to public investors when OpenAI still sets the tempo.
Jul 16, 2026 at 08:46 14 8
DeepSeek targets the markets: IPO filing in mainland China potentially as early as 2026
Liang Wenfeng's open-weight lab discusses with advisors; targeted listing in 2027, valuation still unknown.
Jul 15, 2026 at 10:14 23 7
X-Square Robot: a foundation stack for general-purpose robots, finally readable
The X-Square Robot laboratory publishes a three-layer "foundation stack" for embedded AI. It's not yet a robot GPT - but the architecture reading, it, is ripe.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 3 11