A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

I enjoyed this article... random cat pictures (esp. thumbs up cat picture) kept me going.

I do think on device AI will be a BIG thing... and basically change how we interact with our computers entirely - you will just ask to get things done. Low latency, free to use as much as you want. I think this future is hard to avoid/this will be a chunk of the future.

The article appears to be slop and even has random model train of thought text interleaved with the article text at various places.

And you can also tell that this is an obviously Chinese model trained on the Chinese internet in the CCP alternate reality, due to various wild claims:

> Looks a bit unfamiliar, doesn't it? Don't worry, its founder and CEO is an old acquaintance: Chen Danyan.

> Known as the "godfather" of programmers in the internet era, his achievements are a matter of public record:

> Shanda Network's co-founder and the head of Lian Shang Network, one of China's earliest programmers to introduce the concept of "shareware"

This is a fundamental problem with "open weight" models where you don't know the training data. The biases are real, and they come out in really subtle ways.

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It's just another Qwen 3.6 27B finetune (not even 3.8...), claiming to beat TB-sized models. This is probably the 57th model like that, just this week, claiming the same thing... And they never deliver, to say the least.