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Chinese lab whose 2026 downloads are effectively all from models above 70B.
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An a16z partner built a fake University of Alabama rushee for about $100 and drew tens of thousands of views per post. Brands still pricing influence by reach are the counterparty to that trade.
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Modular opened the whole Mojo compiler three weeks after Qualcomm bought the company. What tells you whether it stays cross-vendor is who gets to merge a patch, not the LICENSE file.
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MiniMax's open-weight H3 base generates at 768p, and the 2K stage is not in the release. Pipelines validated on text-to-video demos will meet ceilings the demos never showed.
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VMR's maintainer publishes routing overhead and cache-hit numbers to argue that unattended coding agents need byte-faithful pass-through and session affinity. Everything else is complexity.
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Tracxn puts 2026 native AI funding in the region at $4.1 billion, more than double 2025. Remove Kling AI's $2.8 billion Series D and 22 rounds share $1.3 billion.
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Hugging Face now hosts 2.96 million public model repositories. The ones anyone actually pulls number in the tens of thousands, and the monthly parameter ceiling has been set in China all year.
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