Sentient Foundation has launched the Fingerprinting Leaderboard, an open benchmark designed to measure the effectiveness of model fingerprinting techniques, their impact on model performance, and their resistance to removal. It also open-sourced mlprints, a tool library that integrates various fingerprinting techniques and attack methods into a unified evaluation framework.
VAST has open-sourced EdenLive, a real-time generative renderer in the Project Eden series, which supports real-time interactive image generation based on arbitrary visual references, and also open-sourced EdenGolem (v0.1), a programming agent skill for game development.
Ant Group's Bailing announced the open-source release of Ling-3.1-flash, with approximately 560B total parameters, 25B activated parameters, and up to 1M context support. It scored 41 on the intelligence index and outputs about 210 tokens per second. Using MXFP4 quantization and block-FP8, weight usage drops from about 534GB to 292GB, and Hopper deployment is reduced from 8 to 4 cards. It also provides long-context parallel inference and JSON Schema tool-calling support.
Lip-Bu Tan said China's frontier AI models have low token costs and fast adoption, with DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM performing well enough. He firmly supports open source and believes the market will decide application scenarios for different models. He also said quantum computing may go mainstream in three to five years, and software will improve the efficiency of related infrastructure.
On the morning of September 23, the World Open-source AI Challenge (GOAI) concluded in Hangzhou with the GOAI DAY grand prize roadshow and awards ceremony, as six champion teams from 70 finalists — selected from 12,279 entries across 91 countries and regions — competed for the one-million-yuan grand prize.
StepFun has released and open-sourced Step Code v0.1.0, a CLI-based AI coding tool under the MIT License, covering the full development workflow from code editing to testing and delivery. It scored 80.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 73.3% on Multi-Frame, a 150-task long-horizon benchmark, and supports one-command static site publishing via StepPage.
At the 4th Open Source Hardware Spark Conference and Global AI Hardware Innovation Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, Huang Guan unveiled the open-source project MicroPixel, describing it as the industry's first AI-native embedded application operating system for low-cost chips. It provides three layers of capabilities — system-level encapsulation, natural-language AI creation, and application-level sandbox isolation — allowing low-cost chips to install and switch apps like smartphones.
On September 18, MiniMax Code CLI v0.4.12 was officially released to global developers, with its source code open-sourced under the MIT license.
Mozilla released the second edition of its State of Open Source AI report, saying the capability gap between China’s best open-weight models and US frontier closed-source models has narrowed to 4.4 months. The report compared Kimi K3 with Fable 5 in cost and performance, and cited OpenRouter data showing 8 of the top 10 models in August were open source.
On September 14, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory open-sourced the ATRIA Dawn Preview model. Trained on over 100GB of global weather data with over 0.4B parameters, the model can predict global weather one week ahead within one minute, and outperforms FourCastNet on some metrics. Muxi completed Day0 adaptation for the model on the same day.