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Ant Group drops trillion-parameter Ling-2.5-1T and Ring-2.5-1T: Open-source reasoning/math SOTA models

Ant Group released Ling-2.5-1T, a 1T-param MoE for agentic tasks with 1M context and ultra-efficient reasoning, and Ring-2.5-1T, the first hybrid linear-architecture 'thinking' model hitting gold-medal IMO/CMO scores. Both open-source on Hugging Face/ModelScope, matching frontier performance with far fewer tokens.

Why it matters: Elevates open-source AI to trillion-param efficiency frontiers, fueling agent/math breakthroughs for fintech and beyond.
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Software Market Selloff: Trillion-Dollar AI Wipeout as Investors Rethink Winners

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AI Governance in China Not Just Top-Down, Research Finds

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India's AI Impact Summit kicks off with Modi, global CEOs in Delhi

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Ant Group unleashes Ling-2.5-1T and Ring-2.5-1T trillion-param models

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Auto Model: Automatically Pick the Right AI Model for Any Task

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JD.com launches open-source JoyAI-LLM-Flash for Lunar New Year

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Ant Group Releases Ling-2.5-1T, Expanding Open-Source AI Family

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Moonshot AI launches Kimi Claw, a new AI agent development platform

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Big Tech stocks shed billions as AI spending fears intensify

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2026 Global Strategy Briefing for Boards on Quantum and AI

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Lenovo expands global R&D with new AI innovation centers

Lenovo announced expansion of its R&D footprint with new AI-focused facilities in Europe and the Middle East to accelerate hybrid AI development. The move aims to enhance personalized, perceptive, and proactive AI technologies amid growing enterprise demand.

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Mozilla open-sources 'any-llm-go' library for multi-model AI apps

Mozilla's new Go library enables seamless integration of OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and other LLMs via a unified API.

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Skygen.AI emerges from stealth with $7M seed, 19yo founder ends 'chatbot era'

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Tavus introduces Raven-1 with multimodal perception for real-time AI conversations

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GLM-5 open-source model turns AI into full software engineers

Zhipu AI's new GLM-5 excels in generating complete codebases and debugging, signaling LLMs evolving from assistants to autonomous engineers.

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Chips

Alphabet's moves boost Nvidia and Broadcom investor confidence

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India hosts AI Impact Summit with world leaders and top AI CEOs

Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the five-day AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, drawing 20 national leaders including Macron and Lula, plus execs like Altman, Pichai, Hassabis, and Amodei. The event focuses on global AI governance, ethics, jobs, and bridging Global South with advanced economies.

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Quick Bites

Ling-2.5-1T: 1T params (63B active), 29T pretrain, 1M ctx, SOTA tool use & alignment
Ring-2.5-1T: Gold on IMO 2025 (35/42), CMO 2025 (105/126) w/ hybrid linear attention
Ring-2.5-1T: First hybrid linear trillion-param model, IMO 2025 Gold (35/42)
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: Alibaba MoE crushes IFBench, rivals GPT-5.2 agents at 1/6 cost
Model tsunami: Sonnet 5, GPT 5.3, DeepSeek V4 next week
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: Alibaba's MoE multimodal agent model open-sourced, 17B active params, 1M context, 19x faster decode
Doubao 2.0 Pro rivals GPT-5.2/Gemini 3 Pro on agents/math at 1/10th cost
Model storm incoming: DeepSeek V4/GPT-5.3/Sonnet 5/Gemini 3.1/Qwen 3.5.
Doubao 2.0 Pro: agent SOTA at sub-$0.50/million tokens
Doubao 2.0 Pro: 155M WAU, agent SOTA at sub-$0.50/M tokens.

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