The AI cloud specialist aims to reach its power target by year-end even as regulators and grid operators warn the current build rate is unsustainable without urgent infrastructure reforms.
Category: Technology & AI
Meituan Releases LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 Bringing Digital Human Tech to Commercial-Grade Applications
The upgraded model delivers improvements in lip-sync precision physical plausibility long-form video stability and supports multi-person interactions for commercial video production.
Meituan’s Six Research Papers Accepted at ACL 2026 Covering LLM Evaluation and Mathematical Reasoning
The papers span large model evaluation complex process reasoning reinforcement learning competition-level mathematics and generative recommendation systems at the premier NLP conference.
Meituan Introduces New Business Intelligence Architecture Centred on Centralised Metrics Platform
The company shifted from fragmented personalised datasets to a unified high-performance analytical platform eliminating data caliber confusion across enterprise reporting workflows.
Google Gemma 4 Gains Traction as Open-Weight AI Model for Fine-Tuning and Self-Hosting
Google’s open Gemma 4 model is seeing growing adoption among developers who need privacy, custom training, and cost control via self-hosted deployments.
European Parliament AI Act Enforcement Begins as Providers Scramble to Comply
The EU’s landmark AI regulation began enforcement, requiring AI system providers to conduct risk assessments and provide transparency for high-risk applications.
Qwen 3.5 Updates Continue to Pressure Western Closed AI Vendors on Cost and Performance
Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 and associated model updates maintained competitive pressure on Western AI companies, particularly in Asia-Pacific enterprise markets.
AI Funding Shift: Model Layer Approaching Commodity as Differentiation Moves Up the Stack
Industry insiders confirmed an April 2026 internal memo warning that the base model market is commoditising rapidly, shifting value toward integration and workflow layers.
Mistral Codestral Remains Top Choice for AI-Powered Code Assistance in Mid-2026
Mistral’s Codestral model maintained its strong position among developers prioritising speed and accuracy in code completion and generation tasks.
DeepSeek V4 Pro Cuts Price 75% Putting Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic in Asia
DeepSeek’s dramatic price reduction for its flagship model intensified the AI cost war, especially for enterprise users in Asia-Pacific markets.