Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
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Open-Weight AI Enters GitHub Copilot: Kimi K2.7 Code Costs Less, Audits Differently

GitHub moved the AI coding landscape on Wednesday when it made Kimi K2.7 Code — a Beijing-built, open-weight model from Moonshot AI — generally available in the GitHub Copilot model picker, marking ...
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Compile Once, Run Offline: New AI Method Matches 32B Models With a 23MB File

Local AI inference at 32B-parameter quality, no cloud API required: University of Waterloo researchers released PAW on July 2 ...

Computer scientists develop a new AI tool that rivals AlphaFold 3 in mapping RNA

The same family of artificial intelligence that powers today's image generators is now being aimed at one of biology's ...