But here's what nobody's saying: Chinese AI just dominated the leaderboard.
7 of 8 top video models: China. Faster. Cheaper. Better. While everyone waited for Sora, they shipped the future.
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Chinese AI dominates video models: 7 of 8 top, faster, cheaper
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Alibaba-backed AI (100M users) launches omni-model, memory attention, instant generation
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Alibaba-backed. 100M users. Launched Jan 13.
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 17 janvier 2026
Three breakthroughs nobody else has:
Omni-model (everything speaks one language)
Memory attention (infinite worlds that remember)
1-4 step generation (instant response)
They unified what Google, OpenAI, Meta built separately. pic.twitter.com/irDCNCm78ZAlibaba-backed. 100M users. Launched Jan 13.
Three breakthroughs nobody else has: Omni-model (everything speaks one language)
Memory attention (infinite worlds that remember)
1-4 step generation (instant response) They unified what Google, OpenAI, Meta built separately. -
From waiting and hating to live interactive generation
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Old way: • write prompt
• wait
• get clip
• hate it
• start over New way: • think it
• see it build LIVE at 1080P
• change anything mid-generation
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PixVerse R1: Real-time world model replaces AI video generation
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AI video just died. What comes next is so much better it's not even the same category. PixVerse R1 isn't a video generator. It's a real-time world model that responds to your thoughts instantly. This changes everything.
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Google Launches Personal Intelligence Beta in Gemini App
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New year, same pace Here’s what we’ve launched recently: — A beta version of Personal Intelligence in @GeminiApp
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Google Releases MedGemma 1.5 for Healthcare AI Innovation
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This week, we released a pair of Gemma updates that developers can use to innovate across the healthcare and translation spaces: — MedGemma 1.5 4B: Our updated open medical AI model improves performance in 3D imaging and reasoning over medical records. We also kicked off the
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Practical guide to using Kling for AI image and video generation
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If you haven't used Kling before, it takes a slight bit to figure out. You can make images, or videos. Either from your own pictures, or you can just start with a prompt and let it do everything. Speaking of prompts, try writing your own, but then you can have it improve your… pic.twitter.com/atdEvtwyUG
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 16 janvier 2026If you haven't used Kling before, it takes a slight bit to figure out. You can make images, or videos. Either from your own pictures, or you can just start with a prompt and let it do everything. Speaking of prompts, try writing your own, but then you can have it improve your
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Fine Motor Control and Attention Drive Optimal Brain Size
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When you add fine motor control to a chimp’s vocal cords, suddenly the optimal brain size explodes. Same with adding attention to a data center.
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World models driving advancements in robotic movement and autonomy
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All year long, the robot demos are going to get better and better and better. The world models are starting to come together and, here we go, running in the world model.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 15 janvier 2026
I used to run marathons at about this pace. I bet by the end of the year, it'll be sprinting. https://t.co/0I1hniqwjpAll year long, the robot demos are going to get better and better and better. The world models are starting to come together and, here we go, running in the world model. I used to run marathons at about this pace. I bet by the end of the year, it'll be sprinting.
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Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.2 Klein Models
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Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2 [klein] models in 4B and 9B sizes.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 15 janvier 2026
– Klein 4B under Apache 2.0
– Klein 9B as open weights
– Very fast 👀
– Available on BFL Playground for testing https://t.co/PYwP7mteSJ pic.twitter.com/0zFG0J7pjhBlack Forest Labs released FLUX.2 [klein] models in 4B and 9B sizes. – Klein 4B under Apache 2.0
– Klein 9B as open weights
– Very fast – Available on BFL Playground for testing