Zhipu hits Tmall, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max tops CodeArena, Musk teases 2.1T-parameter Grok4.7
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-03
A roundup of AI industry news:
- Models & products: Zhipu opened a Tmall storefront selling GLM Coding Plan subscriptions from ¥118/month; Alibaba updated Qwen3.8-Max, jumping 22 points to 1691 to top the CodeArena WebDev leaderboard at $5/M tokens; OpenAI is set to release Astra, a cybersecurity model it says has reached a "critical cybersecurity threshold"; Musk teased Grok4.7 with 2.1T parameters arriving in 10 days.
- Companies & capital: Mainland investors bought HK$10.6B of Minimax stock via Stock Connect in August, surpassing Alibaba and Tencent; Fei-Fei Li's World Labs released multimodal world model Atlas with pixel-level camera control and 3D reconstruction; Unitree's stock halved from its debut high.
- Other: Sam Altman pushed back on data-center water-use concerns, citing a Virginia report that most data centers use no more water than large office buildings.
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