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China AI startup Naive AI bets on mid and post-training to compete in LLMs

Chinese AI model startup Naive AI, founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, has been valued at more than $1.4 billion and raised $400 million from Tencent and others in three funding rounds, The Information reported. Based in Beijing, it plans to release its first large language model this month as an open-weight model. The company is led by professor Dai Zhipeng and is focusing on improving model performance through mid-training and post-training techniques.

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SKT\'s A.X K2 posts top-tier results in AI math reasoning evaluations

SK Telecom said its A.X K2, developed for a government-led sovereign foundation model project, posted strong results on math-reasoning benchmarks. The company said the model scored 29 out of 42 on the IMO 2026 evaluation, meeting this year’s gold medal cutoff, and tied for the top score on the MathArena AIME 2026 leaderboard with 97.1 percent accuracy. It also said A.X K2 achieved a perfect score in the KMO 2026 second round.

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U.S. open-weight AI startups emerge, but checking China is unclear

As Chinese AI companies shake the global market with low-cost open-weight models that users can download and modify, U.S. startups are also emerging with open-weight offerings. The Wall Street Journal named Arcee, Reflection AI, Poolside and Thinking Machine Lab as drawing attention. Demand is rising in the United States for domestic open-weight models amid geopolitical concerns, but fundraising remains difficult and performance against leading Chinese models is still uncertain.