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Neocloud market shifts as SoftBank and Meta enter
The neocloud market for AI-focused cloud computing is shifting as major players enter. SoftBank Group and its telecom unit SoftBank plan to start a neocloud business next fiscal year, renting AI computing resources to U.S. companies. Meta is also stepping up plans to use its data centres for cloud services. Nvidia is expanding support for smaller cloud firms that lease its GPUs. Big cloud companies are also building forward deployed engineer teams for enterprise AI.
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Meituan releases LongCat-2.0 as open source, trained on 50,000 Chinese-made ASICs
Meituan has released its LongCat-2.0 AI model, previously known by the codename \"Owl Alpha\", as open source on GitHub, Hugging Face and its own platform. The model uses a 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture and supports a 1 million-token context window under the MIT licence. Benchmark scores include 59.5 on SWE-Bench Pro. Meituan said it trained the model on a cluster of more than 50,000 Chinese-made ASICs without Nvidia GPUs.
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Chinese AI models overtake U.S. in token usage, DeepSeek V4 ranks No. 1
Chinese AI models have pulled well ahead of U.S. models in token usage, NDTV Profit reported, citing OpenRouter data. OpenRouter said Chinese models have surpassed U.S. models in token consumption so far this year. NDTV Profit said efficient model design let Chinese AI research companies set lower token prices than leading U.S. firms. DeepSeek V4 Flash led with 4.63 trillion tokens, and only Anthropic appeared among the top five models.