Chinese AI model updates for API builders
Short, dated briefings on Chinese frontier model changes — versions, context, open weights, and how they map to OpenAI-compatible access. Official docs first; social signals only for discovery.
Seedance 2.5 Status: July Slip, ~30s Video, August Window
What we know about ByteDance Seedance 2.5 as of late July 2026: announced late June, early-July GA targets slipped, industry signals point to August; ~30-second native clips, multimodal references; annual-contract (年框) priority access notes.
China Model Watch — July 2026: Kimi K3, GLM-5.2, DeepSeek-V4, Qwen3.8
Weekly-style briefing of Chinese frontier model moves in July 2026: Moonshot Kimi K3, Zhipu GLM-5.2, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max-Preview — and what they mean for OpenAI-compatible API access.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro for API Builders: What Replaced V3.2
DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash are the 2026 flagship pair (1M context, open weights). How to migrate OpenAI-compatible clients from V3-era model IDs.
Kimi K3 + GLM-5.2: The 2026 Open Frontier Pairing
How Moonshot Kimi K3 and Zhipu GLM-5.2 complement each other for long-horizon coding, 1M context, and open-weight deployment — with OpenAI-compatible access notes.
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