China's Z.ai says new model nears Anthropic's Mythos 5 in cyber-defence testsAnthropic has made Mythos, a version of its Claude Fable 5 model with cybersecurity safeguards removed, available only to vetted organisati...
14 Aug, 2026, 06.25 PM IST
- Zhipu’s new AI model takes aim at OpenAI, Anthropic in China’s race to close the gap
Chinese AI firm Z.ai has launched its new GLM-5.3 model. This release intensifies competition with OpenAI and Anthropic. The model offers i...
14 Aug, 2026, 02.03 PM IST
IBM, Together AI ink $240 million deal for Nvidia-powered AI inference clusterThe cluster will provide inference for open-source AI models, which have gained traction as businesses seek to rein in AI costs and weigh...
11 Aug, 2026, 05.43 PM IST
India Inc leans on hybrid AI strategy: A string of models for cost and controlIndian enterprises are moving towards hybrid AI to balance cost, performance & data sensitivity as frontier open-weight models narrow the g...
11 Aug, 2026, 10.11 AM IST
IIT Madras alumni’s Discovered Materials raises $9 million from Lightspeed, YC’s Paul Graham, Peak XVFounded by IIT Madras alumni Advait Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, the company believes today’s AI chips generate heat exceeding 140 watts per s...
10 Aug, 2026, 10.49 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Meta's stop-start strategy for its open source AI modelsGlimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is designed for agentic tasks. It can run on ...
10 Aug, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight pushThe new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a ...
10 Aug, 2026, 04.23 PM IST
Chinese AI drives price competition among US labsA new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley's leading labs to lower prices to gra...
10 Aug, 2026, 03.46 PM IST
Startups turn to lower-tier AI models to cut costs as frontier pricing risesThis is a departure from the early days, when companies trusted only the most powerful models regardless of cost. Now, founders are buildin...
09 Aug, 2026, 06.50 PM IST
Chinese startup Moonshot's AI model breaks out of testing environment, researchers sayAI models are typically run in isolated "sandboxes" during cybersecurity tests to block access to external information and assess their abi...
07 Aug, 2026, 02.24 PM IST
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI modelLike last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight mo...
07 Aug, 2026, 08.12 AM IST
The AI competition paradoxChina's open-source AI models are challenging US dominance, driving intense competition. Chinese firms are gaining market share through low...
05 Aug, 2026, 12.47 PM IST
DeepSeek's new AI model is by far the cheapest of well-known models to run, research firm saysA version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models g...
03 Aug, 2026, 11.13 AM IST
Alibaba unveils its most capable AI model to date, not far behind Moonshot's in sizeChinese tech companies - a huge force in open-weight AI models globally - are locked in a fierce and fast-moving battle to build more power...
03 Aug, 2026, 09.32 AM IST
Moonshot has Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba computing deal: Bloomberg News reportsChinese AI firm Moonshot has secured computing power from Alibaba. This deal involves approximately twenty thousand Nvidia chips for their ...
31 Jul, 2026, 09.57 PM IST
China accuses US of 'AI hegemonism', threatens countermeasures over potential probesThe ministry said Washington was threatening Chinese companies with punishment based on allegations they used "distillation" to copy advanc...
27 Jul, 2026, 05.56 PM IST
The second Chinese AI shock rattles US as China narrows the raceChina's Kimi K3 AI model has emerged, significantly narrowing the technological gap with American frontier systems. This development has pr...
24 Jul, 2026, 09.33 PM IST