The Number
- Qwen3.8-max sits #5 overall on Arena's text preference ranking at Elo 1496, the top China-lab entry, as of 2026-08-05.
- Kimi K3-max ranks #2 on Arena's coding preference board at Elo 1676, behind only Claude Opus 5-max, as of 2026-08-05.
- Qwen3.7-flash lists at $0.03/M input tokens on OpenRouter, the cheapest China-lab model on the platform, as of 2026-08-06.
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash cache-miss input runs $0.14/M tokens against $0.435 for V4-Pro, per DeepSeek's docs, as of 2026-08-06.
Top of the Fold
- Sand.ai open-sources MAGI-2 Preview at 114B total parameters with 6B active, its bet that video generation scales through MoE, per 智东西.
- MiniMax H3 tops Hugging Face trending above DeepSeek V4 Flash within a day of open release, drawing over 100 partner integrations in 24 hours, per 雷峰网.
- ByteDance opens 2027 campus hiring with over 70% of roles in tech and product, adding AI full-stack and agent-development posts, per 雷峰网.
- Alibaba's Taotian opens 2027 graduate hiring with AI technical roles at over 90% of openings, per 量子位.
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- Doubao's video-call mode adds full-duplex, all-modality handling so it answers only when addressed and stops interrupting side conversations, per 夕小瑶科技说.
- ByteDance's Jimeng ships pro tooling for Seedance 2.5, including Maya and Blender plugins and native 30-second single-shot output, targeting film-grade delivery, per 雷峰网.
- 量子位 flags another China AI fund blowing up, framed as open-source rewriting the rules, circulating and unconfirmed.
- A Qwen3-0.6B surgery paper converts 21 of 28 attention layers to Kimi Delta Attention on a single consumer GPU and diagnoses what breaks, preprint on arXiv cs.CL.
The Backstory
- Early Weibo posts attributed to DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng resurface, including an account of a solo trek that left him stranded in an uninhabited zone for seven days, circulating and unconfirmed, per 雷峰网.
The Kicker
- A few-yuan bamboo cicada toy went viral because its "waa" sound matches Yu Chengdong's catchphrase, and sellers now list it as the "Wenjie M9 same sound," per 虎嗅.
