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Week 35 · 2026

August 24 – August 30

52 events

Importance: important New models update ✓ 2

Z.ai runs GLM-5.3-Flash on 100 000 Chinese AI chips instead of Nvidia GPUs

Z.ai confirmed that GLM-5.3-Flash (320 billion parameters) runs on 100 000 Chinese AI chips instead of Nvidia GPUs. Released on 26 August 2026 under the MIT license, the model achieves performance close to GLM-5.3 at roughly one-seventh of the price.

New: The model was predicted on 20 August under the codename 'Ox Alpha', officially released on 26 August 2026; It is being deployed on 100 000 Chinese AI chips instead of Nvidia; Temporary price of 0.075 USD per million input tokens (until 9 September), then 0.15 USD; output tokens 0.25 USD/million; Focused on long contexts, agentic tasks and code synthesis

Importance: monitoring New models 1 source

The Mogan AI team released the Turkish encoder model MoganBert-TR with the CLM-to-MLM training procedure

The Mogan AI team released the 149M-parameter Turkish encoder model MoganBert-TR, trained on 237.3 billion tokens using the CLM-to-MLM procedure; it achieves 78.41 points on TrGLUE, the best result among Turkish ModernBERT models. The accompanying smaller embedding model achieves 99.5 % of the performance of the teacher.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Startup Instinct raised $250 million in a Series B round, reaching a valuation of $2.5 billion

Startup Instinct (the company Spear Street Technology) raised $250 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, reaching a valuation of $2.5 billion. Total funding is $350 million, and the AI agent from 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn is in private beta and faces privacy concerns.

Importance: monitoring Other 1 source

The decline in the Unitree share price after the IPO reveals the early stage of physical AI

Shares in Unitree, valued at 66 billion dollars at the IPO, lost roughly half their value. According to industry experts, physical AI is still at an early stage comparable to the GPT-2 era, lacking high-quality training data and reliable commercial applications for general-purpose robots.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Google about hosting the Kimi K3 model in exchange for a share of revenue

Chinese company Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Google about hosting the Kimi K3 model on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud in exchange for a share of up to 30 % of revenue. It would be the first such agreement between a Chinese AI company and a US cloud provider, but the talks are at an early stage.

Importance: important GitHub Productivity ✓ official

GitHub made the Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app available to all users

The Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app is now generally available. It brings MCP servers, plugins, skills and canvases together in one place, offering both a recommended Featured selection and browsing by type.

Importance: monitoring Amazon Tools and apps 1 source

Amazon added MCP Apps support to Amazon OpenSearch Service for interactive observability dashboards in an AI assistant

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps – an extension to MCP in which the agent's response includes, in addition to text, an interactive visualization (trace waterfall, service topology, log pattern) directly in the AI assistant window, without the need to switch to a separate observability tool.

Importance: monitoring Robotics 1 source

XPeng raised 900 million dollars to launch mass production of the Iron humanoid robot

XPeng raised over 900 million dollars in the first external funding round for its robotics unit, valued at 6.3 billion dollars. The funds are intended to accelerate mass production of the Iron humanoid robot, with a target of 1 000 units per month by the end of 2026.