It's been a big — but rocky — week for AI models from China. Here's what's happened

New AI models launched by China's biggest players underscore how the country's companies are keeping up with the U.S.
InfoQ

Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications

Sahil Dua discusses the critical role of embedding models in powering search and RAG applications at scale. He explains the ...

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI ...

OpenAI's new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex - but there's a catch

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.
InfoQ

Open Responses Specification Enables Unified Agentic LLM Workflows

OpenAI's Open Responses standardizes agentic AI workflows, tackling API fragmentation and enabling seamless transitions ...
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...
Wall Street Journal

China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes

Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration. Observing ...
GitHub

LaCache: Ladder-Shaped KV Caching for Efficient Long-Context Modeling of Large Language Models

transformers had made a major change on kv cache implementation since version 4.36.0. Please use ppl_legacy if you are using transformers < 4.36.0 ...