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  1. LeiphoneProduct release
    AI score60

    Xingyuan Intelligence Releases Cross-Embodiment Data Engine Chorus, Untangling the Challenges of the Embodied Data Pipeline

    Xingyuan Intelligence has released Chorus (Zhongxing), a cross-embodiment data engine for robot pre-training, which can convert human manipulation data collected by devices such as smart glasses, chest-mounted cameras, wrist cameras, and UMI into training data adapted to different robot embodiments. Xingyuan claims that the average usable data conversion rate has risen to 85%, that it adapts to 16 robot embodiments under the current test configuration, and that the processing cost per hour of effective robot trajectories has dropped to 15 yuan; combined with 3x instruction augmentation, this can achieve roughly 40x expansion of effective training data. The article also outlines the difficulties in the five stages of embodied data—filtering, annotation, motion conversion, validation, and feedback iteration—as well as the respective shortcomings of four types of data sources: real robots, simulation, UMI, and human first-person videos.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#English text is being prepared.

  2. OpenBMBProduct release
    AI score58

    OpenBMB Reposts Real-World Test Case of MiniCPM-OCR on Handwritten Notes

    OpenBMB reposted a user's real-world test case of using MiniCPM-OCR to recognize actual handwritten notes, and thanked them for sharing. The quoted tweet explains that MiniCPM-OCR consists of one model responsible for reading documents and another model that evaluates the output and flags parts that may be wrong, and is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.

    OpenBMB just released an OCR parser alongside a separate model that evaluates its outputs. It’s called MiniCPM-OCR. One model reads your documents. A second model tells you which parts it probably got wrong. 100% open source. Apache 2.0. ↓ https://t.co/ihbtDjZaUy

    #Industry news#Multimodal#Product updates

  3. QbitAIProduct release
    AI score57

    NVIDIA and MIT teams' Open-H3-Regenerate-2K, an open-source video enhancement solution based on MiniMax H3…

    The Efficient-Large-Model team, composed of researchers from NVIDIA and MIT, has released the model weights for the video enhancement project Open-H3-Regenerate-2K on Hugging Face, with the accompanying inference code now available in the NVlabs/Sana repository. Based on MiniMax H3, the solution regenerates low-resolution video drafts into high-resolution video, supports 2K output at 2560×1440, and can achieve native 4K regeneration at up to 3840×2160. The team kept the H3 Transformer backbone and video VAE parameters unchanged, training only the newly added refinement LoRA; at inference time it is merged with community adapters such as LightX2V FL2VA Turbo and LMS Sharp, regenerating image details through three-step denoising. On a single NVIDIA B200 GPU, the combined time for latent-space upscaling, three-step refinement, and 2K decoding of an approximately 5-second video dropped from 87.26 seconds to 22.45 seconds, about 3.9 times faster than before; on RefinerBench-150, UniPercept averaged 60.0, compared with 53.4 for the official H3-Regenerate-2K API.

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    #English text is being prepared.#Video#Open-source ecosystem

  4. English text is being prepared.Product release
    AI score55

    DeepSeek official website code reveals Cyber, an independent cybersecurity model, in grayscale testing split into enterprise and personal editions

    Developers discovered the application entry point and API logic for the Cyber cybersecurity model in the front-end code of the DeepSeek official website, with model identifiers cyber-personal-v3 and cyber-enterprise-v4. The personal edition requires ID card information and completion of facial verification, while the enterprise edition additionally requires submission of a business license and authorization letter; both channels require a real-name account, registration in mainland China with a bound mainland mobile phone number, and no violation records within the past 90 days. Currently, this entry point does not appear in the public menu, and only a small number of grayscale accounts can see the relevant section on the usage page. DeepSeek has not yet issued an official announcement.

    #Product updates#Safety / alignment#DeepSeek

  5. Phoenix TechnologyProduct release
    AI score60

    XHEART New Core Voyage Releases 700 TOPS Automotive-Grade Chip X7 Ultra

    XHEART New Core Voyage has released the automotive-grade chip X7 Ultra, with 700 TOPS of computing power, focusing on reverse-defining chip architecture and toolchains based on large-model requirements. The previous-generation X7 series has cumulatively shipped more than 200,000 units, is deployed in 10 mass-production vehicle models, and has secured orders for more than 40 vehicle models. The company also announced that its next-generation X9 targets 3,000 TOPS of computing power and 700GB/s single-chip memory bandwidth, with launch planned for 2027.

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    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

  6. 36Kr · AIProduct release
    AI score71

    Neuralink Connects Grok to the Brain: ALS Patient Controls AI Agent with Thoughts

    Neuralink has announced its latest progress: Kenneth, a patient with ALS, silently thinks "Hey Neuralink" and formulates a task in his mind, which then wakes up the Grok agent on his computer to autonomously execute the operation. The team conducted a 72-hour development sprint at the subject's home, producing 8 functional prototypes, including neural voice activity detection (VAD) that requires no manual switch, a system-level brain-computer input method called BCI Keyboard Dictation, and a mobile app called Bloom. Kenneth also used speech generated by the brain-computer interface to connect to the iPhone call audio stream, making a phone call to his wife with his thoughts for the first time in seven years.

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    #Product updates#Agents#Embodied AI

  7. Jiwei.comProduct release
    AI score65

    Iluvatar CoreX's Tiangai 300 Benchmarked Against H200 in Real Tests, and On-Device Terminal Tongyang TY1200 Released

    Iluvatar CoreX held its Shanghai media open day on October 28, where it opened the Tiangai 300 for live demonstrations for the first time, saying that in third-party real tests its single-card end-to-end throughput reached 1.05 times that of the H200. The company also provided lab data such as 64K-context Attention at 1.05 times that of the H200 and MoE throughput under GLM-5.3 at 1.15 times, and showcased its cloud-edge-device layout, with the on-device terminal Tongyang TY1200 rated at 300 TOPS INT8 dense computing power.

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    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Reasoning

  8. gihyo.jpProduct release
    AI score52

    Gemini Notebook Can Add Select U.S. and India Textbooks for Free

    On October 29, 2026, Google announced that Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) can add hundreds of textbooks for free, with sources including U.S. and Indian publishers such as OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S Chand Publishing. Google's Josh Woodward said on X that more than 700 textbooks are available for free. Users open the catalog by selecting Textbooks under Add sources within a notebook, can filter by subject, level, and country, and can ask questions based on textbook content, view citation links, and generate study guides, practice quizzes, and flashcards.

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    #Product updates#Google

  9. Sina TechProduct release
    AI score52

    Baidu upgrades search AI API, minimum 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than DeepSeek

    At a product upgrade communication meeting, Baidu App announced an upgrade to its search AI API, with a minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the promotional period, lower than the DeepSeek search API. The upgraded Wenxin Assistant moves search from a single question-and-answer exchange toward delivering finished outputs, covering more than 170 scenarios; AI Lens supports simultaneous recognition of multiple targets and dynamic tracking, and enables real-time conversation in 9 dialects. GUI interactive scenarios on the search results page have increased 5-fold, with access to over 5 billion data resources from government affairs, livelihood, the central bank and others, while AI interactive dramas and interactive applications have launched simultaneously.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#Search#DeepSeek

  10. WallstreetcnProduct release
    AI score58

    Doubao Work Opens Third-Party Models Such as Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek to Enterprise Customers

    On October 29, ByteDance's Doubao Work announced that it would open third-party large model services to customers on its Team Subscription and Enterprise Subscription plans. The first batch of integrated models includes Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, among others. Enterprises can call them directly using their existing AI credits without needing to separately purchase API access. The article notes that Tencent WorkBuddy has already integrated models including Hunyuan, GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, and DeepSeek, while Qwen Office's model selector still primarily offers its own options such as Advanced, Basic, Economy, and Qwen3.8-Max. After integrating multiple models, platforms also need to coordinate different models' context lengths, tool calling, and costs at the Harness level; model aggregation and automatic routing are not the same thing.

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    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  11. QbitAIProduct release
    AI score64

    Genspark Releases Video Agent Workspace Media Studio, Integrating 70+ Models

    Genspark has officially released its video Agent workspace Media Studio, with a large language model serving as director and integration of 70+ model versions from more than 20 vendors, covering video, image, audio, and 3D. The author tested using Seedance 2.5 to generate a video of Ultraman and Dario rapping on the same stage, and used the story bible feature to complete the business-war short drama "Pricing Night"; running 3 cases consumed about 45,000 credits. According to the official description, knowledge-explainer videos follow a code-to-video route, and code rendering itself does not consume credits, while narrative films offer 3D white-model previews and partial reshoots to reduce rework.

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    #Product updates#Agents#Video

  12. QbitAIProduct release
    AI score63

    1.3B Open-Source Document Parsing Model OXR Tops Three Leaderboards, Introducing RSI Self-Evolution Training

    The domestic open-source document parsing model OXR, with 1.3B parameters, has topped three leaderboards: OmniDocBench, olmOCR-Bench, and DocParsingBench, and has already gained 1.1K+ Stars on GitHub. In the post-training stage, the model introduces a Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) training paradigm for document parsing, using a general-purpose multimodal model to classify the parsing results of unlabeled documents into three categories—Correct, Wrong, and Uncertain—and then performing attribution clustering to generate targeted synthetic data that is fed back into training. Architecturally, it delegates layout analysis to an independent, pluggable lightweight model, while the main model is responsible for both content recognition and reading-order determination. A single RTX PRO 6000 takes 101.0 seconds to parse 100 pages end-to-end, and the code, weights, and evaluation reproduction pipeline have all been made public.

    #Model releases#Open-source ecosystem#Multimodal

  13. Rohan PaulProduct release
    AI score54

    Cartesia Releases Managed Agents, Ranking First in Blind Human Preference Tests on Speech Agent Arena

    Cartesia has launched Managed Agents, an end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprises, which ranks first in blind human preference tests on Artificial Analysis's Speech Agent Arena and first on ServiceNow EVA-Bench. The platform uses a cascaded architecture, jointly tuning its proprietary voice models and the agent harness as a single system. Its H-Nets learn directly from raw bytes, achieving 3–5x efficiency gains in controlled scaling experiments, and at larger scale matches an open-source model trained on 11 trillion tokens with roughly 10x less training data and compute.

    Introducing Cartesia Managed Agents: our end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise. #1 on @ArtificialAnlys Speech Agent Arena and @ServiceNow EVA-Bench, built by co-designing our voice models and harness as one system. Check it out → https://t.co/7kJhCYqjQo https://t.co/NVOAds9czf

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    #Product updates#Speech#Agents

  14. Phoenix TechnologyProduct release
    AI score62

    XHEART Releases Large-Model Chip X7 Ultra with 700 TOPS of Compute

    XHEART has released the X7 Ultra, a new-generation chip designed for billion-parameter-level smart-driving large models, with 700 TOPS of compute. The company says that in real-world tests using a partner's production Transformer smart-driving model, compute utilization reached 98.7%, and that while matching the model performance of industry flagship chips, memory bandwidth consumption dropped by 80% and inference energy efficiency improved by 100%. The X7 series has shipped a cumulative 200,000 units in 8 months of mass production, equipping 10 production vehicle models, with the first launch model being the SAIC Volkswagen ID.ERA 9X; at the same event, Momenta released the R7 Ultra world model, whose parameter count is 5 to 10 times higher than the previous generation.

    Same story · 7 reports

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#Reasoning

  15. Phoenix TechnologyProduct release
    AI score69

    Neuralink Connects Grok to the Brain: ALS Patient Controls AI and Makes a Phone Call With His Thoughts

    Neuralink has announced its latest progress: Kenneth, a patient with ALS, silently thinks "Hey Neuralink" and states a task in his mind, which wakes up the Grok Agent on his computer to autonomously carry out operations. The team conducted a 72-hour development sprint at the participant's home, producing 8 technical prototypes, including neural voice activity detection that requires no manual switch, a system-level brain-computer input method called BCI Keyboard Dictation, and a mobile app called Bloom. Kenneth also connected speech decoded by the brain-computer interface to the iPhone call audio stream, and after seven years, made a phone call to his wife using his thoughts.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#Embodied AI

  16. cnBetaProduct release
    AI score71

    Neuralink Subject Uses Thoughts to Wake Grok Agent and Control Computer

    During a 72-hour hackathon, the Neuralink team developed 8 functional prototypes for P21 subject Kenneth, including the ability to silently think "Hey Neuralink" in his mind and think through a task to trigger the Grok agent to operate the computer autonomously. The team also rewrote the neural voice activity detection system to achieve pure thought-based speech decoding without button presses, and routed the decoded speech into the iPhone call microphone audio stream, enabling this ALS patient to call his wife using only his thoughts. In addition, the dedicated app Bloom supports placing orders by thought in a café, and a system-level brain-computer input method allows text entry in any app.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#Speech

  17. Rohan PaulProduct release
    AI score53

    Claude for Legal Adds a Library of Prebuilt Mini-Apps Covering Citation Checks and Contract Clause Review

    Claude for Legal has added a batch of prebuilt mini-apps for everyday legal work such as verifying citations and sources and flagging contract clauses that violate company rules, some of which were built by Harvey, PwC, Goodwin, and Foley & Lardner. After opening an app, lawyers can first see how it performs on sample data, then point it at their own files and let Claude complete the first round of processing, with every finding linked to its source. Claude's official account said the app library also covers scenarios such as contract review and regulatory horizon scanning; users can start from the built-in examples, add their own documents and connectors, and share them across the enterprise.

    New in Claude for Legal: a gallery of ready-made artifacts for contract review, regulatory horizon scans, cite checks, and more. Start from the built-in example, add your own documents and connectors, and share it with anyone across the business. https://t.co/Wn2VK2HeMU

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    #Product updates#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  18. Guillermo RauchProduct release
    AI score60

    Vercel CEO Explains Vercel CI in Detail: Infrastructure, Turborepo Integration, and Agentic CI

    Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch published a post explaining how Vercel CI solves the AI coding bottleneck, in three layers: fast and stable infrastructure (20 clusters worldwide, running millions of microVMs per day), Turborepo integration (automatically computing the dependency graph and skipping and caching existing work), and Agentic CI. He said that vercel ci in the CLI is the first step; agents can now inspect, abort, trigger, and replay CI, and Vercel Agent can assist with optimization. More capabilities will be added later, giving CI engineer-like judgment. The official Vercel account previously announced that Vercel CI had entered beta, with CI in internal repositories sped up 2-6×, and optimized for agents via Vercel MCP and the CLI.

    Introducing Vercel CI • Intelligently skips tasks with Turborepo • 2-6× faster CI in our internal repositories • Optimized for agents via Vercel MCP and CLI After nearly 8 million tasks, we're excited for the future of agentic CI. In beta on all plans. https://t.co/IcsuvweAhB

    #English text is being prepared.#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  19. Rohan PaulProduct release
    AI score50

    Sunra launches a unified API to call image, video, audio and 3D models at the vendors' original prices

    Sunra has released Sunra API, which lets users call all major image, video, audio and 3D models with a single key, billed at each model vendor's own API price, on a pay-as-you-go basis, with no subscription fee and no markup. Rohan Paul relays that Seedance 2.5 costs half as much on Sunra as on two other gateways, and that this unified entry point also makes it easy to run A/B tests on models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Kling.

    Today we're launching the Sunra API. Every leading image, video, audio and 3D model through one key, each at its maker's own API price. Pay as you go, with no subscription and no markup. The models are ready. Your app is next. https://t.co/bQzsZ8DJZy

    #Industry news#Video#English text is being prepared.

  20. Shao MengProduct release
    AI score65

    The MiniMax Code team open-sources MCode Stack Agent workflows and Skills

    The MiniMax Code team has open-sourced MCode Stack, writing the Agent workflows and Skills the team uses daily into installable SKILL.md files and manifests, which can be integrated as plugins into MiniMax Code and any Agents that support Skills. The repository packages stacks by member, among which stacks/ronny/ is the most complete, containing 15 skills covering sub-Agent decomposition, context and tool budget auditing, long-session handoff, independent review, and hotfix judgment. The companion notes/ column MCode Engineering Notes explains the rationale; the six engineering-* entries are adapted from Google Engineering Practices, with the adapted portions under CC-BY 3.0 and the rest under MIT.

    We just open-sourced MCode Stack: the actual workflows and skills the MiniMax Code team uses every day to build MiniMax Code. https://t.co/vREt7i8m2M

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    #English text is being prepared.#Agents#Open-source ecosystem