Zhipu releases GLM-5.3; Tencent open-sources Hy4preview; Ant launches Fin model

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Models & Releases

Zhipu GLM-5.3: Open-sourced FP8/BF16 weights. Enhances coding and long-horizon tasks via post-training, scoring 28.3 on Terminal-Bench3.0. New license requires security review for commercial use by companies with >$10B revenue.
Tencent Hy4preview: Hunyuan's new flagship, 770B MoE with 1M context. Scored 2.99/4.00 in blind tests; demos include controlling Unreal 5 via MCP.
Ant Ling-3.0-flash-Fin: Financial-specialized model (124B params), excels at reading reports and updating complex Excel models. Weights open-sourcing next week.

Companies & Policy

Meta Project Hatch: Testing personal AI agent with independent computer environment for tasks like shopping and booking.
G20 Tech Meeting: Executives from OpenAI, Nvidia, and SpaceX to attend; US pushes for lighter AI regulation.
NDRC Statement: Warns against blind expansion in robotics industry; plans to support real-world data and standards.
WeChat Dialect: Responds to controversy over abnormal dataset entries, attributing them to algorithmic errors.

Funding & Financials

Sharpa Funding: Dexterous robotics company raised over 4.5 billion RMB from Alibaba, Tencent, Sequoia, etc.
UBTech Financials: H1 revenue 1.27 billion RMB (+104.2%); humanoid robot sales up 268.3%.
SF Express / BYD: SF profit down 4.1%; BYD revenue and net profit declined, EV sales dropped.

Other

Ruan Yifeng: Breaks down AI answering mechanisms into parameters, reasoning, and web access.

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