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Zhipu launches GLM-5.3-FlashX with 200 tokens/s inference speed: Zhipu AI has launched GLM-5.3-FlashX, claiming inference speeds of nearly 200 tokens per second on approximately 100,000 domestic accelerators. The base Flash model is a 320-billion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 18 billion active parameters, optimized by an Infra Agent.

Zhipu AI • Pandaily

Amap launches ABot-Earth 0.7 to generate 3D cities 1,000 times faster: Amap has released ABot-Earth 0.7, a 3D-native urban world model integrated with Flying Street View 2.0. The model can generate kilometer-scale 3DGS cities on a single consumer GPU in approximately 10 minutes using satellite or text input. This process is reportedly about 1,000 times faster than traditional pipelines.

AI Models • Pandaily

Volcengine launches Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro with multimodal coding: Volcengine has fully released the Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro 0915 model featuring multimodal coding capabilities. The model demonstrated rebuilding a 280,000-line Java ERP from screen recordings and sketches, achieved an 83% mergeable rate on Luanti repo fixes, and reduced image and video inference token costs by over 30%.

ByteDance • Pandaily

PrismML compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 to 5.9 GB for smartphones: PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a model that compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B down to 5.9 GB. This compression makes the model small enough to run on smartphones while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's original benchmark scores.

Artificial Intelligence • Techmeme

Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of Ascend 960DT AI chip to rival Nvidia: Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip, targeting a release in the first quarter of 2027. The move is part of the company's push to compete with Nvidia and narrow China's AI computing gap with the United States.

Hardware • TechCrunch AI

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Claude Code users can save costs by extending sub-agent prompt cache TTL to one hour