Debate: do AIs hit superhuman limits on every task or only some?

A community IQ4_XS quant of llmfan46's uncensored Qwen3.8-27B Heretic build keeps the MTP head intact and runs on an RTX 4080 with 16GB, hitting 55-68 tok/s. 24GB and 12GB variants are also published.

China's AI drama and animation market exceeded RMB 22 billion ($3.29 billion) in the first five months of 2026, per DataEye, with full-year projections of RMB 40 billion and 138% year-on-year growth. 221,900 new AI short dramas released from January to June, 1,055 surpassing 100 million views.

Beijing-based LivSyn Robotics raised at least RMB 100 million in a Series A announced October 8, with backing from listed energy-services firm Suwen Electric Energy and an undisclosed embodied-AI strategic investor. Its RUDA platform connects robot designs to AI models, with PhiAgent converting human demo videos into training data and RoboAgent handling task execution.

Chinese smart-glasses startup NIMO raised several hundred million yuan in angel funding, with Gobi Partners among the investors. Proceeds go to new products, core tech, domestic retail expansion and overseas entry.

A Reddit user built ComfyUI custom nodes that build Krea2 prompts by picking attributes or adding a reference image. The nodes run through the text encoder, adding some time to image generation.

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton argues in a new interview that assumptions about consciousness and the "human soul" are fundamentally flawed. He contends digital intelligence cannot simply be switched off.

ByteDance combined office agent TraeWork and coding tool TraeCode into one TRAE app announced October 9, with Agent mode for cross-project tasks and IDE mode for coding and debugging. It runs on desktop, web and mobile; standalone TraeWork shuts down October 23.