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Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US three years after initial shock from ChatGPT

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in Beijing and in Hong Kong

Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University , to provide briefings on the implications of generative AI technology, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
China’s Big Tech firms and ambitious start-ups rushed to roll out their own versions of AI chatbots and large language models (

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Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation

The Qwen logo is seen in this illustration taken, January 29, 2025. Photo: Reuters

When US tech giant Meta Platforms released its flagship Llama family of artificial intelligence models in February 2023, they were open-sourced, a move that singled it out among global AI model developers at the time.

That September, one of the many derivatives of Llama was announced: Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen. The first generation of Qwen adopted
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Meta 被指借阿里巴巴 Qwen 模型 “蒸餾”方式訓練新模型 中國 AI 實力再下一城

有媒體報道指,美國科技巨頭 Meta 正借用 Alibaba 開發開源 Qwen(通義千問)模型,訓練新 AI 模型 Avocado,藉此重振自家 AI 業務。Meta 同時亦使用 Google 及 OpenAI 開源模型,冀能在春季推出 Avocado。《南華早報》指這標誌著中國 AI 實力進一步獲國際肯定。

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OpenAI 發布 GPT 5.2 AI 模型 抗衡 Google 試圖重奪 AI 領導地位

【GPT-5.2 發布✅】隨著與 Google 的競爭日趨激烈,OpenAI 於 11 日正式發布其最新的前沿模型 GPT-5.2,被稱為迄今為止最先進的模型,目標使用者為開發者和專業人士。

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Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released With Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes

Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts.

WIth WSL 2.7.0 they have re-based to using a downstream Linux kernel derived from Linux 6.6.114 LTS. WSL has been on the Linux 6.6 LTS branch for quite a while now and they remain there even with two newer Long Term Support kernels available (Linux 6.12 and Linux 6.
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 after 'code red' push to counter Google's Gemini 3 - Reuters

OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 after 'code red' push to counter Google's Gemini 3 Reuters

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(PR) Just Launched OpenAI GPT-5.2 Trained & Deployed on NVIDIA Infrastructure

Unveiling what it describes as the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 today. The model was trained and deployed on NVIDIA infrastructure, including NVIDIA Hopper and GB200 NVL72 systems. It's the latest example of how leading AI builders train and deploy at scale on NVIDIA's full-stack AI infrastructure.

Pretraining: The Bedrock of Intelligence
AI models are getting more capable thanks to three scaling laws: pretraining, post-training and test-
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OpenAI releases ‘code red’ GPT-5.2 update to ChatGPT: ‘most capable model series yet’

OpenAI has officially announced its GPT-5.2 upgrade to ChatGPT. This is the so-called “code red” reaction to Google Gemini that OpenAI calls its “most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work.”

The announcement follows a report last week that claimed OpenAI was pushing up the release of GPT-5.2 by at least a few weeks as a response to the latest Gemini models from Google. OpenAI had a “code red” memo , reacting to the competition, that drove the accelerated


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AI race: Meta reported to use Alibaba’s Qwen for ‘Avocado’ model in likely win for China

American tech giant Meta Platforms is reportedly using an open-source artificial intelligence model developed by Alibaba Group Holding to reinvigorate its faltering AI efforts in another likely win for Chinese AI.

According to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, Facebook owner Meta was using Alibaba’s Qwen model, along with other open-source models from Google and OpenAI, as part of the training process for a new model code-named Avocado, which was expected to be released in the spring.

The report did not specify which Alibaba Qwen model was

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