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Topwit Showcases OpenHarmony Innovations at OpenAtom Open Source Ecosystem Conference 2025
The 2025 Open Atom Open Source Ecology Conference in Beijing spotlighted open source’s role in industry. Topway Info & Communication and Kaihong Zhigu showcased their contributions, receiving the “Open Source Pioneer Enterprise” award. They launched the OpenHarmony Co-construction Map 4.0 and participated in talent development initiatives. Kaihong Zhigu also joined the OpenHarmony AI Agent TSG, aiming to integrate AI with the operating system. They presented on “AI + Harmony” applications across education and transportation.
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OpenHarmony Fuels Open Source Innovation in Government & Enterprise Applications
At the 2025 OpenAtom conference, Huawei’s Zhang Xiaofeng highlighted OpenHarmony’s progress in community growth (over 9,000 contributors), technological advancements, and industry adoption with over 1,200 compatible products. OpenHarmony supports diverse sectors, from finance to transportation. Customized OS distributions like “YiHong” are driving digital transformation. Integration of HarmonyOS in government and enterprise office applications is accelerating, promoting efficient office experiences. Zhang Xiaofeng called for increased collaboration to build a thriving OpenHarmony ecosystem.
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Kimi K2 Joins Dangbei AI’s Expanded Aggregation Model “Super Toolbox”
Kimi’s K2 model launched with open-source architecture and disruptive pricing, claiming superior code generation to Claude Sonnet4. Dangbei AI, a Chinese AI platform, is among the first to integrate K2 into its “super AI toolbox,” complementing DeepSeek R1-0528 and Doubao Large Model 1.6. K2’s strengths include its accessible architecture and low cost (4 yuan per million tokens). Dangbei AI’s integration strategy focuses on comprehensive scenario coverage with seamless model switching and end-to-end solutions, alongside features like no-login access and incognito mode.
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Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 Model Series Available First on China’s Computing Platform
Baidu has open-sourced its ERNIE 4.5 AI models, featuring multi-modal Mixture-of-Experts with enhanced orthogonality. Modong Space, China’s national computing platform, is the first to integrate these advanced models. ERNIE 4.5 optimizes training and inference for improved text generation, image comprehension, and multi-modal reasoning, catering to diverse real-world applications.
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Baidu Open-Sources WENQING 4.5 Series Models, Featuring 10 AI Models
Baidu has released its ERNIE 4.5 open-source large language model series, featuring ten models including Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) variants. These models offer fully open-sourced pre-training weights and inference code, accessible via platforms like Hugging Face. The series boasts innovative heterogeneous MoE architecture for multimodal capabilities and achieves state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks, outperforming competitors in text and multimodal tasks. The models are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting both academic and commercial use.
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Huawei Releases Pangu-7B Dense and 72B Mixture-of-Experts Models as Open Source
Huawei has open-sourced its Pangu 7B dense and Pangu-Pro MoE 72B large language models, along with Ascend-based inference technology. This move supports Huawei’s Ascend ecosystem strategy, aiming to accelerate AI research and application. The Pangu-Pro MoE 72B model shows strong performance, ranking highly on benchmarks for models under 100 billion parameters.
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Moonshot AI Unveils First Self-Reinforcement Learning Agent, Outperforming OpenAI and Gemini
Moonshot AI launched Kimi-Researcher, its first autonomous AI agent, currently in beta. Built on end-to-end agentic RL, Kimi-Researcher surpasses leading models like Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro in internal tests, demonstrating strong autonomy and zero-structure adaptability. The agent independently manages research tasks, navigates conflicting information, and prioritizes accurate results. Moonshot AI plans to open-source key components to further accelerate advancements in agentic RL.
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HDC 2025 SDK Forum: Fostering Open-Source Collaboration and Cross-Platform Frameworks for the HarmonyOS Ecosystem
HDC 2025 in Sanya showcased advancements in the HarmonyOS ecosystem, specifically focusing on streamlining app development. Huawei spearheaded the unveiling of the HarmonyOS Application Open Source Component Technical Map, a collaborative effort with partners to create a comprehensive library of open-source components. This initiative aims to reduce redundant coding, accelerate development cycles, and foster a thriving environment for developers, featuring 1115 open-source libraries and 7 cross-platform frameworks. The event included presentations from industry leaders demonstrating successful framework integrations and the growth of the HarmonyOS platform.
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Web Programming Crowdsourcing Rankings: DeepSeek-R1 Overtakes Claude 4 to Claim Global Top Spot
DeepSeek R1-0528 surpassed Claude Opus 4 in web programming, showcasing strong coding capabilities, especially with detailed prompts. Though performing well in web app development, it faltered with a Tetris game. R1 is also the top-performing open-source text model but has been recently surpassed by Kimi-Dev in open-source code.
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Kimi’s “King Move”: Open-Source Kimi Model Debuts, Surpassing DeepSeek R1 Globally
Moonshot AI introduced Kimi-Dev-72B, an open-source code LLM designed for software engineering. The 72-billion parameter model tops the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, surpassing larger models like DeepSeek-R1. Kimi-Dev-72B utilizes RLHF to autonomously repair code within Docker. Key features include BugFixer, TestWriter, mid-stage training, and test-time self-play. The model is available on Hugging Face and GitHub.