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The article details the Qwen3-Next model architecture released by the Qwen team. As an early preview of Qwen3.5, its core goal is to significantly improve the model's cost-effectiveness and performance. The Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base model costs only one-tenth of its predecessor in training, and its long context inference throughput is more than ten times higher. Technical innovations include hybrid attention mechanisms (introducing Gated DeltaNet), high-sparsity MoE structure, stability optimization (Zero-Centered RMSNorm), and native Multi-Token Prediction mechanisms. Based on this architecture, the team simultaneously released Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking, the latter surpassing the closed-source model Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking in several benchmark tests. The article demonstrates Qwen3-Next's multimodal understanding and code generation capabilities through actual tests of AIME math competition problems and programming tasks. The new model is open-sourced on ModelScope and Hugging Face. Qwen Chat provides free access, and the model can be accessed via the PAI API.

Tencent released and open-sourced its latest generative image model, Hunyuan Image 2.1, late at night on September 9th. Building upon the 2.0 architecture, this model has been fully upgraded with enhanced focus on balancing generation quality and performance. It supports native 2K high-definition AI-generated images and significantly improves the high-quality generation capabilities and overall aesthetic performance of Chinese and English text with advanced semantics. Hunyuan Image 2.1 is a fully open-source foundation model, released on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub, quickly becoming a popular model worldwide, enabling designers and developers. Technically, the model benefits from a larger-scale Image-Text Alignment Dataset, OCR, and IP RAG Expert Model, enhancing sophisticated semantic understanding and text control. Simultaneously, it achieves efficient training and reasoning through a VAE with 32x ultra-high compression and an optimized dual-text encoder, greatly improving efficiency while ensuring generation quality. It reaches state-of-the-art (SOTA) level for Open-Source Models in SSAE and GSB evaluations, approaching closed-source commercial models. The synchronously open-sourced Hunyuan Text Rewriting Model, PromptEnhancer, further optimizes prompt effectiveness.

The article introduces Mini-o3, an open-source multi-turn Visual Reasoning model jointly developed by ByteDance and the University of Hong Kong. It is capable of deep multi-turn reasoning and achieves state-of-the-art performance in challenging Visual Search tasks, replicating OpenAI's o3. The core innovation of Mini-o3 lies in not requiring extensive training resources. It effectively enhances the model's ability to scale interaction turns during testing through the construction of the VisualProbe dataset, an iterative data collection process, and a Super-Turn Masking Strategy. The article details the two training phases: Cold-Start Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), particularly highlighting the crucial roles of reducing the maximum pixel limit and introducing a Super-Turn Masking Mechanism in the RL phase. Experimental results show that Mini-o3 significantly outperforms other open-source models in multiple benchmarks such as VisualProbe, V*Bench, and HR-Bench. All related code has been open-sourced, providing practical guidance for the development of multi-turn interactive multimodal models and Reinforcement Learning (RL) applications.

This year's Bund Summit showcased cutting-edge AI applications, including stir-fry robots and AI gyms, and convened industry leaders such as Richard Sutton, Wang Jian, Ma Yi, Wang Xingxing, Zhu Xiaohu, and Yuval Harari for in-depth discussions on the current state and future of AI. Turing Award winner Sutton suggested that the human data dividend is nearing its limit, and AI is entering an 'era of experience' centered on continuous learning. Wang Jian, founder of Alibaba Cloud, emphasized the strategic importance of open source in AI competition, arguing that OpenAI 'is on the wrong side of history' by not fully embracing it. He believes that open source has evolved from code sharing to resource (data, computational power, model weights) sharing and highlighted the 'Three-Body Computing Constellation' as a space AI initiative. Ma Yi of the University of Hong Kong posited that current AI is still in the early stages of intelligent evolution, lacking a fundamental understanding of intelligence, and should move away from excessive reliance on Large Language Models (LLMs) to learn from nature. Wang Xingxing, CEO of Yushu Technology, noted that while AI excels in creative tasks, deploying AI for practical work remains a 'desert' due to challenges in data and model alignment for Embodied AI. Zhu Xiaohu of GSR Ventures predicted a surge in AI applications next year, with potential replacement of low-code software, and stressed that user retention is a key investment criterion. Historian Harari cautioned that measuring progress should consider cooperation and empathy alongside technological speed, advocating for 'governance before launch' in AI's widespread adoption.

The article provides an in-depth introduction to Tencent's AI CLI tool CodeBuddy Code, positioning it as a CLI Agent for professional engineers, supporting the entire lifecycle of development and operations driven by natural language, and enhancing automation. The article points out that the birth of CodeBuddy Code makes Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy the first AI programming tool matrix in the industry to simultaneously support plugins, IDE, and CLI forms. The author divides the development of AI programming tools into five levels, from L1 to L5, emphasizing that AI's role is gradually upgrading from auxiliary to driving, and points out that the CLI mode will become the foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI programming, especially suitable for enterprise-level teams with extensive coding requirements. It implements traceable and collaborative intelligent workspaces through CodeBuddy.md files, and achieves effective long-term memory management through semantic context compression and the MCP protocol. Tencent's internal practice shows that CodeBuddy has significantly improved development efficiency and the proportion of AI code generation, indicating that AI programming will accelerate its evolution towards Level 4 and potentially Level 5 AI software engineering.

The article details Kimi's open-sourced `checkpoint-engine` middleware, designed to address the issue of low parameter update efficiency in the reinforcement learning inference process for large-scale LLMs (such as Kimi K2's trillion-parameter model). It adopts distributed deployment and implements parameter-by-parameter updates via a pipeline method, enabling trillion-parameter updates in 20 seconds on thousands of GPUs. This solves challenges like engine switching latency, fault recovery, and insufficient network file system bandwidth. `checkpoint-engine` simplifies system design, optimizes model startup time, and improves fault tolerance, providing critical technical support for the continuous iteration and stable operation of ultra-large-scale AI models.

This article provides an in-depth look at Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's latest insights and outlook on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Hassabis predicts that AGI is expected to be realized within the next decade, ushering in a "golden age of science." However, current AI still faces bottlenecks in creativity, universal PhD-level intelligence, and continuous learning ability. He emphasizes that building a "World Model" that can understand the physical world is crucial for realizing AGI and promoting the robotics revolution, illustrating this with the Genie and Veo models. The interview also covers DeepMind's applications in scientific discovery (such as AlphaFold and Isomorphic Labs' drug development), AI's energy consumption and long-term contributions, and the future development of entertainment and Robotics. Hassabis believes that the long-term benefits of AI will far outweigh its short-term energy consumption and is committed to accelerating scientific discovery and improving human health through AI.

Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Huawei jointly open-sourced FDABench, the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the performance of Data Agents in heterogeneous hybrid data analysis scenarios. This benchmark aims to address key limitations in current data agent evaluations, such as lack of comprehensiveness, high construction costs, and limited versatility. FDABench includes 2007 test tasks, spanning over 50 data domains, supporting various heterogeneous data sources, including structured databases, PDFs, videos, and audio, and sets multiple difficulty levels and task types. It also features an innovative Agent-Expert collaboration framework, compatible with various Data Agent workflow patterns (e.g., planning, tool usage, reflection, and multi-agent), offering quantitative guidance for selecting the optimal agent based on specific requirements.

The article explores the core issue of inefficient Rollout stages in Reinforcement Learning (RL) training, pointing out that it accounts for more than 80% of the time and is limited by memory bandwidth and autoregressive characteristics. Addressing this bottleneck, a research team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ByteDance jointly proposed the RhymeRL framework. Based on insights into the “historical similarity” of model-generated answers (sequence similarity and length distribution similarity), the framework designs two core components: HistoSpec and HistoPipe. HistoSpec introduces Speculative Decoding into RL, using historical responses as drafts for parallel verification, greatly improving the generation speed of individual responses; HistoPipe effectively eliminates GPU bubbles in batch processing through a stride-based complementary scheduling approach, maximizing the utilization of cluster resources. Experimental results show that RhymeRL achieves end-to-end training throughput improvements of up to 2.61 times on tasks such as mathematics and code, without sacrificing accuracy, providing an important way to accelerate AI technology iteration.