MiniMax M2.7 Claims to Automate Its Own Training
MiniMax's new 2,300B MoE model tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and claims to run 30-50% of its own RL research workflow autonomously.
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MiniMax M2.5 Review: Frontier Code at Bargain Cost
MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench at 1/20th the price - but a spike in hallucinations and a distillation controversy complicate the story.
GLM-5 - China's 744B Open-Source Frontier Model
Zhipu AI's GLM-5 is a 744B MoE model with 40B active parameters, trained on 100K Huawei Ascend chips, scoring 77.8% SWE-bench and 50 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index - MIT licensed.
China's GLM-5 Rivals GPT-5.2 on Zero Nvidia Silicon
Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.
Cambricon MLU590 - China's Inference Accelerator
Full specs and analysis of the Cambricon MLU590 - 192GB HBM2e, ~2,400 GB/s bandwidth, TSMC 7nm, and what it means for AI inference outside the NVIDIA ecosystem.
Kimi K2.5 vs GLM-4.7-Flash: China's Open-Source Heavyweight vs the Free API Underdog
Comparing two Chinese AI models with MIT-family licenses - Moonshot AI's trillion-parameter Kimi K2.5 against Zhipu AI's ultra-efficient GLM-4.7-Flash that punches well above its weight on coding and agentic tasks.
