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China’s AI drop hits logic and vision hard
Plus, 📩 Document Your Klaviyo Flow with Guidde (Fast!), AI Is Breaking School As We Know It, and more!
Hello there! Ready to dive into another upgrading, Mind-boggling, and Value-filled Shift?
Today we have:
🧠 China’s AI Drop Hits Both Sides of the Brain
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🎓 AI Is Breaking School As We Know It
🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss
🧠 China’s AI Drop Hits Both Sides of the Brain
Tencent and Alibaba just released two major models aimed at global AI relevance, one for reasoning, the other for creativity. Tencent’s Hunyuan-A13B brings open-source efficiency to MoE modeling, while Alibaba’s Qwen-VLo leans into multimodal, visual-first generation.
The Shift:
1. Tencent Hunyuan-A13B Is Now Open-Source – With 80B total parameters and 13B active ones, Hunyuan-A13B uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) setup to reduce compute. It runs on a single mid-range GPU and supports tool use, logical reasoning, and dynamic “thinking modes.”
2. Built for Devs, Not Just Demos – The model was trained on 200T tokens and performs well across math, logic, and instruction-following. It’s now available via GitHub, Hugging Face, and Tencent Cloud.
3. Qwen-VLo Aims for GPT-4o Vibes – Alibaba’s new multimodal model generates and edits text-to-image content using natural language and progressive generation. It also handles multi-image input, multilingual prompts, and flexible resolutions.
These aren’t closed demos or research teasers, they’re production-grade models built for real-world use. While frontier labs push raw scale, Tencent and Alibaba are optimizing for control, cost, and creator workflows. Global model competition just got a lot more practical.
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🎓 AI Is Breaking School As We Know It
According to Axios, schools are in freefall: educators can’t agree on what counts as cheating, AI detectors misfire constantly, and every classroom has its own rules. The entire education system is bending under a tech shift it still doesn’t understand.
The Shift:
1. Everyone’s Using It, No One Agrees - 90% of college students used ChatGPT within two months of its release. Today, 1 in 4 teens rely on it for schoolwork, twice as many as last year. But teachers are split: some allow AI-generated outlines, others treat it as plagiarism.
2. AI Detectors Add to the Chaos - 59% of educators say cheating has increased, but detection tools often flag real work and let AI-written content slide. Students are being forced to submit writing logs just to prove they’re human. Meanwhile, some professors use AI to prep their own course materials.
3. Classrooms Are Being Rewritten in Real Time - 66% of university leaders think AI is shrinking attention spans, and over half say their schools aren’t ready for the AI era. In response, some are going old-school with oral exams and handwritten essays.
Education is being reshaped faster than schools can respond. Without shared rules, students are improvising, teachers are guessing, and no one agrees on what “learning” means anymore. The chaos is real, and growing.
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🕶️Quick Shifts
💼 OpenAI is recalibrating compensation after Meta reportedly poached eight researchers. Leadership is working to retain talent, with Sam Altman disputing claims that Meta offered $100M signing bonuses.
📊 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI now handles 30% to 50% of the company’s workload, with 93% accuracy, marking what he calls a “digital labor revolution” in enterprise operations.
🕶️ Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled AI-powered smart glasses featuring voice command support, a 12MP camera, and battery life twice that of Meta’s Ray-Bans.
🧠 OpenAI has hired the team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds, known for privacy-focused personalization tools used by brands like Intuit and Chanel.
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