A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

FailMore•20 minutes ago

I enjoyed this article... random cat pictures (esp. thumbs up cat picture) kept me going.

I do think on device AI will be a BIG thing... and basically change how we interact with our computers entirely - you will just ask to get things done. Low latency, free to use as much as you want. I think this future is hard to avoid/this will be a chunk of the future.

petcat•about 1 hour ago

The article appears to be slop and even has random model train of thought text interleaved with the article text at various places.

And you can also tell that this is an obviously Chinese model trained on the Chinese internet in the CCP alternate reality, due to various wild claims:

> Looks a bit unfamiliar, doesn't it? Don't worry, its founder and CEO is an old acquaintance: Chen Danyan.

> Known as the "godfather" of programmers in the internet era, his achievements are a matter of public record:

> Shanda Network's co-founder and the head of Lian Shang Network, one of China's earliest programmers to introduce the concept of "shareware"

This is a fundamental problem with "open weight" models where you don't know the training data. The biases are real, and they come out in really subtle ways.

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BigTTYGothGF•about 1 hour ago

It's a big world, and I personally don't know anything about the history of software in places other than the west. Could you expand on the particulars of software in China and why those claims are wrong?

petcat•about 1 hour ago

> Known as the "godfather" of programmers in the internet era

try-working•about 1 hour ago

It's a genuine Chinese news article written by a real person. I don't know why they choose to use these types of images, it truly makes it look like slop. I think it's because it's originally a WeChat article posted on their website.

Macuyiko•32 minutes ago

For what it's worth the original article is in Chinese: https://www.qbitai.com/2026/09/483600.html

The article linked here seems to be a (bad) auto-translated version.

It's not uncommon for images to be incorporated in an article like this, as they typically get shared around WeChat and correspond better with the 'culture'.

petcat•about 1 hour ago

How do we explain this little blob of sloptext right in the middle:

> The second task was more straightforward: both models were asked to search for flight tickets in a browser at the same time.

> I'm unable to open a browser or interact with live websites like Google Flights. I can only process text and don't have real-time browsing capabilities. To find this flight yourself, here's what you'd do: 1. Go to google.com/flights 2. Enter Singapore (SIN) → Beijing 3. Select one-way, set departure date to 5 days from today 4. Filter by "Nonstop" and "Economy" 5. Check the results — note that flights to Beijing may land at either Capital (PEK) or Daxing (PKX). Exclude any Daxing arrivals. 6. Compare prices and pick the cheapest nonstop option landing at PEK. If you'd like, I can help you think through typical price ranges, airline options on this route, or general tips for finding cheap flights.

> Among them, StartLux-V1.0-27B-Preview completed the search in about 95 seconds, finding an Air China ticket priced at $299.

try-working•about 1 hour ago

they're quoting the models chain of thought.

satvikpendem•about 1 hour ago

Did you even read what it just said above? They're testing the model's capabilities so of course they'd have whatever text the model outputted in the article, that's the entire point.

Karuma•about 2 hours ago

It's just another Qwen 3.6 27B finetune (not even 3.8...), claiming to beat TB-sized models. This is probably the 57th model like that, just this week, claiming the same thing... And they never deliver, to say the least.

dgellow•16 minutes ago

Didn’t they deliver something here? Why does it matter what base model they used?

A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

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