Chinese Tech Giants Release Advanced AI Models

This week, Chinese tech firms Alibaba, ByteDance, Kuaishou and others unveiled new AI models that advance robotics, video generation, and agentic language models. Alibaba's RynnBrain adds time-and-space awareness for robot manipulation, ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 and Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 deliver photorealistic video and native audio, and Zhipu AI and MiniMax released improved open-source LLMs and agent tools, signaling stronger competition with Western counterparts.