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On July 29, a new version of the Qwen3-30B-A3B model, called Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507, was released. This new version achieves significant improvements in multiple key areas, marking that the model can achieve performance comparable to top closed-source models such as Gemini2.5-Flash (non-thinking) and GPT-4o, by activating only 3B parameters in non-thinking mode.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Ant Digital signed a strategic cooperation agreement to establish a joint lab for AI+Web3. The two parties will collaborate in three technological areas, including trusted AI agents and blockchain security frameworks. Ant Digital plans to invest 100 million HKD over three years. The laboratory will build an education fund platform, host international academic events, and help Hong Kong become a hub for digital technology talents. The Polytechnic University is globally leading in the field of blockchain, while Ant Digital has extensive experience in financial technology. This collaboration will promote the integration and innovation of AI and Web3 technologies, supporting the development of Hong Kong as an international science and technology innovation center.

Step Star releases the next generation Step 3 large model, which will be open-sourced on July 31st. This 321B parameter multi-modal reasoning model performs outstandingly in intelligence and reasoning efficiency, supporting cross-domain knowledge understanding and visual analysis. The company has established the Model Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance in cooperation with chip manufacturers and reached a strategic cooperation with Shanghai State Capital, promoting the application of large models. Step 3 achieves 300% reasoning efficiency of competing products on domestic chips, with over 70% improvement in throughput, and has established a 1+N model matrix covering multiple fields. The model has achieved SOTA on multiple rankings.

AI music creator Imoliver has signed with the record company Hallwood, marking a breakthrough in the commercialization of AI music. His AI-created song 'Stone' has accumulated over 3 million views, and will be officially released in August, with a full album set to drop in October. This collaboration demonstrates the music industry's recognition of AI creative models. Despite ongoing copyright lawsuits against Suno, this partnership paves the way for the commercialization of AI music and signals that human-machine collaboration is becoming a new trend in the music industry, driving it toward a technology-driven future.

Tencent launches the world's first open-source 3D world generation model, Hunyuan 3D 1.0, supporting 360° high-precision scene generation and interactive exploration. This model significantly lowers the barrier to 3D creation through AI technology, enabling immersive scenes to be generated quickly from a single image or text. It offers 20 free experiences per day. Its open-source nature empowers developers worldwide and is applicable to multiple fields such as gaming, VR, and film. The project has over 12,000 stars on GitHub. This technology advances 3D generation from object-level to world-level, redefining content production processes. It has the potential to drive innovations in gaming and digital worlds in the future.

At the Tencent Forum of the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held on July 27, 2025, Tencent officially released the first version of the HuanYuan 3D World Model and announced that the model will be fully open-sourced. This move marks the birth of the industry's first open-source world generation model that supports immersive roaming, interaction, and simulation, opening up new possibilities for fields such as game development, virtual reality (VR), and digital content creation.

Tencent unveiled the 1+3+NAI comprehensive system at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, with the Hunyuan large model as its core, launching innovative technologies such as the Hunyuan 3D World Model and the embodied intelligence platform Tairos. The system includes three platforms: an intelligent agent development platform for B/C ends, an embodied intelligence platform in the robotics field, and an AI application matrix covering multiple industries, comprehensively showcasing Tencent's AI strategic upgrade. By driving with core models and combining with diverse applications, it provides a complete solution for AI industrialization.

Tongyi Lingma announces the launch of a new Qwen3-Coder model, and this powerful feature will be freely available to users without any usage limits. Users can now easily experience the efficient programming assistance provided by Qwen3-Coder in the Tongyi Lingma AI IDE, VSCode, and JetBrains plugin.

OpenAI seeks $40B funding for 'Stargate' AI project amid financial crisis. SoftBank's $10B investment may withdraw due to location disputes. With $10B revenue but $5B annual loss, profitability is expected by 2029. Recent $30B Oracle deal and talks with Saudi/Indian investors. Internal issues (failed acquisitions, talent drain) and Meta competition raise market concerns.....

Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder tops Hugging Face's model rankings as the hottest open-source AI coding model, outperforming GPT-4.1 and Claude4 with its MoE architecture, excelling in multi-agent tasks, and surpassing 20M downloads. Tech leaders praise it as a breakthrough for Chinese open-source AI.....

The Qwen-MT machine translation model is officially released. Qwen-MT is based on the powerful Qwen 3 model, and has been trained on a massive amount of multilingual and translation data. It combines reinforcement learning technology to significantly improve the accuracy and fluency of translation results. Developers can experience its fast and accurate translation capabilities directly through the Qwen API (qwen-mt-turbo). The core highlights of Qwen-MT include supporting bidirectional translation between 92 languages, covering more than 95% of the global population, and meeting a wide range of language communication needs.

AI office company PixelBloom completes B3 funding round, led by Yizhuang Guotou, with participation from multiple renowned institutions. The funds will be used for two strategic initiatives: accelerating global expansion and consolidating the leading position of AiPPT.com in international markets; expanding the AI Venture Studio model to incubate innovative office products. This funding round reflects market recognition of its technological capabilities and development prospects. In the future, it will promote the construction of the AI office ecosystem and enhance the intelligent office experience for global users.

Metasearch offers a cost-effective Bing API alternative with multilingual index, multi-modal search, and developer-friendly APIs at $0.03/query.....

Mita AI Search announced the official launch of its search API, offering developers a new alternative to Bing Search API. With the upcoming shutdown of Bing Search API in August 2025, Mita's initiative undoubtedly brings new hope to many enterprises and developers who rely on search APIs. Over the past year, Mita has built a multilingual index database with hundreds of billions of entries, which has been tested through daily millions of calls in Mita AI Search. Now

OpenAI partners with Oracle for $30B cloud deal, part of 'Stargate' project with 4.5GW data centers. Oracle's stock hit record high, boosting Ellison to world's 2nd richest. OpenAI's $10B revenue tripled by this deal. Oracle to invest $50B in data centers amid energy/funding challenges.....

Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder, a 48B-parameter MoE-based AI model, excels in complex programming tasks with 256K context support. Trained on 7.5TB data, it outperforms GPT4.1 in benchmarks and is open-sourced on ModelScope and Alibaba Cloud.....

On July 23, Alibaba Cloud officially announced that its latest AI programming large model, Qwen3-Coder, is fully open-sourced, which quickly sparked a buzz in the field of intelligent programming. Qwen3-Coder has achieved top performance among open-source models in agentic coding, agentic browser use, and basic coding tasks, thanks to its outstanding code generation and agent capabilities, marking a new stage in intelligent programming technology. The Qwen3-Coder model series provides

Recently, ByteDance's Seed team officially launched a new Vision-Language-Action Model (VLA) called GR-3. This model demonstrates breakthrough capabilities in the field of robotic manipulation, not only understanding language instructions that include abstract concepts, but also precisely handling flexible objects. It also has the ability to generalize quickly to new tasks and recognize new objects. This achievement is seen as an important advancement toward a 'general-purpose robot brain'. Traditional robotic manipulation models often rely on large amounts of robotic trajectory data for training.