AI News Archive: June 30, 2026 — Part 21
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- Claude’s Sonnet 5 is built to do more on its own and cost you less
Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.
- China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips
China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips Reuters
- China claims biggest AI model trained on local chips, as Meituan releases LongCat-2.0
As China attempts to move beyond using domestic chips solely for model inference, food delivery giant Meituan released what it claims is the country’s largest artificial intelligence model trained entirely on home-grown hardware. The Beijing-based on-demand service giant on Tuesday open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a new large language model (LLM) boasting 1.6 trillion parameters and a context window of 1 million tokens. The scale puts it on par with DeepSeek’s latest flagship model, V4-pro, which...
- Meituan open-sources massive AI model built on China tech
The company said LongCat-2.0 is part of its in-house foundation model program and is aimed at coding.
- China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips
Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-generation LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese chips and compute clusters. The larger takeaway for this colossal model isn’t just the open-source release, it’s the domestic hardware throughline. Meituan may initially seem like an unlikely place for AI […] The post China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- China's Meituan says new AI model trained on domestic chips
Chinese tech firm Meituan launched a new artificial intelligence model on Tuesday that it said was the first of its size to be trained using domestically developed computer chips.
- Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia
Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .
- Anthropic unveils 'Claude Science' for scientific research
Anthropic unveils 'Claude Science' for scientific research Reuters
- DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing
The DeepSeek team announced on Monday that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July. According to the company, the new version builds on the existing preview release with further feature enhancements and performance upgrades. It will come standard with a 1-million-token context window across the entire model lineup, while delivering stronger performance […]
- Google’s Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite support slick media content creation at lower costs
Google LLC is enhancing its generative artificial intelligence capabilities for creators with the debut of a pair of new media-focused models in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The new additions are Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite, and according to Google, they’re designed for better quality image and video generation at lower prices, […] The post Google’s Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite support slick media content creation at lower costs appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Meta's model turn brain waves into words
Meta unveils a model that translates brain waves into textual output, opening new frontiers in brain‑computer interfaces.
- Chinese AI steps onto global stage as GLM-5.2 narrows frontier gap
Chinese AI steps onto global stage as GLM-5.2 narrows frontier gap
- QVal: Cheaply Evaluating Dense Supervision Signals for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
LLM agents increasingly act over long horizons, where a single trajectory can contain hundreds or thousands of actions. In these settings, outcome-only rewards provide too sparse guidance, failing to inform the model about the goodness of intermediate actions. Dense supervision methods aim to solve ...
- Reinforcement Learning with Metacognitive Feedback Elicits Faithful Uncertainty Expression in LLMs
Metacognition is a critical component of intelligence that describes the ability to monitor and regulate one's own cognitive processes. Yet LLMs exhibit systemic deficiencies in key metacognitive faculties: they hallucinate with high confidence, fail to recognize knowledge boundaries, and misreprese...
- When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors
While large language models (LLMs) perform well on table tasks, they still make data referencing errors (DREs), i.e., incorrectly citing or omitting table values, despite understanding the table structure. Beyond final-answer accuracy, DREs directly compromise the correctness and reliability of inte...
- An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping
High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL), automated stations image hundreds of plants daily across multiple remote sensing modalities; yet, trait...
- FLORA: A deep learning approach to predict forest attributes from heterogeneous LiDAR data
Forest attributes are essential for national-scale resource monitoring. Airborne LiDAR metrics are among the auxiliary variables most strongly correlated with forest attributes used in National Forest Inventory (NFI) estimates. However, producing wall-to-wall predictions remains challenging when LiD...
- TRIAGE: Role-Typed Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Agentic reinforcement learning requires assigning credit to environment-facing actions such as searches, clicks, edits, navigation commands, and object interactions. Standard GRPO uses the final verifier outcome as a uniform advantage over all action tokens. This outcome signal is useful but structu...
- Radial Suppression Accelerates Algorithmic Generalization: A Geometric Analysis of Delayed Generalization
Why do neural networks memorize algorithmic training data long before they generalize? We present a geometric case study demonstrating that, on tasks where generalization requires discovering structured low-dimensional circuits, the memorization-generalization delay is driven by radial inflation of ...
- MECoBench: A Systematic Study of Multimodal Agent Collaboration in Embodied Environments
Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have strong potential as embodied agents, but their ability to collaborate in visually grounded environments remains underexplored. To address this gap, we introduce MECoBench, a multimodal embodied cooperation benchmark with an evaluation platform spa...
- Attend, Transform, or Silence: Operator-Level Visual Skipping for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly process long visual-token sequences, increasing the overall inference computation. Existing acceleration methods usually remove visual tokens or skip visual-token updates in entire layers, but these coarse strategies may discard fine-grained evid...
- Harnessing Textual Refusal Directions for Multimodal Safety
To improve safety in Large Language Models (LLMs) we can either perform post-training alignment or exploit refusal directions in the activation space. Both strategies are less feasible in Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) as they require unsafe multimodal data, harder to collect than their unimodal counterpar...
- Z-1: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising framework for robotic manipulation by connecting language instructions, visual observations, and continuous control. However, most existing policies remain limited by behavior cloning or supervised fine-tuning (SFT) from fixed demonstrations, whi...
- Real-Time Source-Free Object Detection
Real-world detectors for autonomous driving, surveillance, and robotics must handle domain-shifts under strict latency and memory constraints, yet existing source-free object detection (SFOD) methods rely on heavyweight architectures that prioritize accuracy alone. We show this trade-off is unnecess...
- Breaking Failure Cascades: Step-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Medical Multimodal Reasoning
Recent multimodal large language models have shown great promise in clinical image reasoning, but existing post-training pipelines remain predominantly outcome-centric, relying on final answer correctness or sequence-level preferences. This suffers from sparse credit assignment, making it difficult ...
- Creating Intelligence: A Computational Foundation for AGI
This work introduces a new computational theory of mind grounded in set theory and hyperdimensional computing. Whereas traditional neural networks rely on continuous weights and matrix multiplication, this framework works with sparse binary data. It represents information as discrete sets, directly ...
- Geometry-Preserving Orthonormal Initialization for Low-Rank Adaptation in RLVR
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) and its variants enable parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models under the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) paradigm. However, their efficacy and behavior under Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) are less well understood. In particular, two s...
- Large Databases Need Small, Open-Weight Language Models
Language model systems built around proprietary APIs often operate on a token-based cost model. This becomes prohibitively expensive in the context of large databases, where LM-enhanced relational operators can incur costs exceeding $10,000 for a single set of experiments, hindering thorough researc...
- RAISE: LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design with Robust Adversary Instance Search
Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) with Large Language Models (LLMs) has shown remarkable progress in discovering high-quality heuristics. However, existing LLM-based AHD methods optimize heuristics for a fixed training instance set and may fail catastrophically when deployed under real-world distribu...
- Evo-PI: Aligning Medical Reasoning via Evolving Principle-Guided Supervision
Despite recent progress, the reasoning capabilities of large multimodal language models (MLLMs) remain fundamentally constrained by static supervision, where fixed prompts, rules, or reward models provide non-adaptive guidance throughout training. Such static signals are often sufficient to enforce ...
- A Technical Typology of AI Systems in Public Administration
Research on artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector often treats "AI" as a single category, neglecting technical distinctions between different AI systems. But these distinctions affect how different systems impact core public values like accountability, procedural justice, and non-discrim...
- JL1-CC&QA: Extending the JL1-CD Benchmark with Change Captioning and Question Answering
Remote sensing change detection (CD) traditionally focuses on pixel-level binary segmentation, which identifies where changes occur but neither what nor why. To bridge this semantic gap, we introduce JL1-CC&QA, a multi-task benchmark that extends the JL1-CD dataset with two complementary annotation ...
- FedXDS: Leveraging Model Attribution Methods to counteract Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
Explainable AI (XAI) methods have demonstrated significant success in recent years at identifying relevant features in input data that drive deep learning model decisions, enhancing interpretability for users. However, the potential of XAI beyond providing model transparency has remained largely une...
- Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian
Relation extraction (RE) for low-resource languages is typically constrained by the lack of annotated corpora. We investigate the feasibility of cross-lingual RE for Romanian by combining automatic dataset translation with large language model (LLM) inference. We translate the SemEval-2010 Task 8 be...
- ShopX: A Foundation Model for Intent-to-Item Fulfillment in Agentic Shopping
The wave of AI-native applications is moving shopping beyond page- and feed-based browsing toward intent-driven experiences orchestrated by LLM agents. A common design wraps an LLM around existing search and recommendation pipelines, forcing complex intents through low-bandwidth retrieval or ranking...
- Introspective Coupling: Self-Explanation Training Tracks Behavioral Change Despite Fixed Supervision
When does training language models (LMs) to generate explanations of their predictions yield faithful introspection, rather than superficial imitation? We study LMs trained to explain which features of their inputs influenced their behavior, using models' counterfactual behavior on modified inputs a...
- Freeform Preference Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Reward design remains a central bottleneck for autonomous robot policy improvement, especially in long-horizon manipulation tasks where sparse success labels provide too little signal and binary preferences collapse many competing notions of quality into one ambiguous signal. We introduce Freeform P...
- AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model
Latent world models enable planning from high-dimensional observations by predicting future states in a compact latent space. However, these models are typically kept frozen at test time: when their predictions become inaccurate, planning can fail, especially under test-time distribution shift. To a...
- AxDafny: Agentic Verified Code Generation in Dafny
We study agentic code generation in Dafny, where a model must generate both executable code and the proof artifacts for verification. We present AxDafny, a verifier-guided repair framework that iteratively generates implementations, invariants, assertions, and termination arguments. We also introduc...
- PolicyGuard: From Organizational Policies to Neuro-SymbolicCompliance Review Engines
Policy-grounded document review requires determining whether a target document complies with organization-specific policies, guidelines, or playbooks. While large language models can assist with policy interpretation and document analysis, end-to-end prompting leaves the applied policy logic implici...
- Self-Study Reconsidered: The Hidden Fragility of Learning from Self-Generated QA
Language models are increasingly taught from synthetic question--answer (QA) supervision: a model generates questions about a document, answers them from the same text, and the resulting pairs are used to fine-tune, distill, or compress knowledge into another model. We show that this generation step...
- Amplifying Membership Signal Through Chained Regeneration
The tendency of large generative models to memorize training data makes sample verification critical for privacy auditing and copyright enforcement. Current membership (MIA) and dataset inference (DI) attacks often rely on one-shot generations, which yield weak signals and limited sensitivity across...
- GR2 Technical Report
Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step disproportionately shapes user engagement and downstream performance, particularly for carousel and grid display formats. Despit...
- LUNA: Learning Universal 3D Human Animation Beyond Skinning
Creating photorealistic, animatable 3D human avatars from monocular images still largely depends on Linear Blend Skinning (LBS) and parametric body models, which constrain expressivity and often introduce artifacts due to imperfect fitting. We propose LUNA, an LBS-free universal neural animation mod...