There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing. In the startup world, we know momentum
GENERATIVE AI
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FLUX.1 Krea [dev] : SOTA open-weights model for photorealism
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Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 Krea [dev] – a new SOTA open-weights FLUX model, tailored for photorealism! https://t.co/vf6d1EH3dq pic.twitter.com/RSyC7BVNgV
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 31 juillet 2025Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 Krea [dev] – a new SOTA open-weights FLUX model, tailored for photorealism!
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Dredge Operators Least Affected by Generative AI Impact
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Dredge Operator is the job category least affected by Generative AI. Fortunately, I am very good at dredging. (In reality, there are only 940 dredge operators in the US)
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Three New AI Models Released: Qwen, Cohere, Mistral
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Three new models this morning (Qwen, Cohere, Mistral) and our power is out so I'm a bit behind now!
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Cohere Releases 112B Open Weights Vision LLM Model
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New open weights vision LLM, 112B parameters, Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license for the open weights or you can pay for access via the Cohere API
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AI Content Labels Impact on Message Persuasiveness Study
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New policy brief: Does labeling AI content affect its persuasiveness? Scholars evaluate the impact of authorship labels on how people perceive AI-written policy messages. https://
hai.stanford.edu/policy/labelin
g-ai-generated-content-may-not-change-its-persuasiveness
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Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct Now Available in Anycoder
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Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct @Alibaba_Qwen is now available in anycoder for vibe coding pic.twitter.com/qm7suH6HAI
— AK (@_akhaliq) 31 juillet 2025Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct @Alibaba_Qwen is now available in anycoder for vibe coding
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Microsoft Study on AI Models References Original Research
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Microsoft study: https://
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AI Job Displacement Predictions Validated by Microsoft Study
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Interestingly, an economics paper that came out in 2023 predicting which jobs would overlap most with AI turned out to be right. A new Microsoft study of actual AI use by workers (more on that in another post) found a 90% correlation between real world overlap & the predictions.
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China Dominates Top 10 Open-Source Models on HuggingFace
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China Dominates Top 10 Open-Source Models on HuggingFace. Not only is the West completely outclassed (Mistral, Llama), the Chinese models are also outstanding.