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so not only DeepSeek, but ByteDance and Alibaba are launching new models around CNY.

and they are all rushing out red envelopes to get people to use during new year period.


I've been using Kimi a lot in the past couple of days. Really good. I actually find it to be the best free access LLM I tried online. Much better than current DeepSeek and Gemini-3 (at least the free version available online).

This is literally the first time you had a Chinese AI model available that's almost as good as the latest American moderns.

I remember when R1 came out, o3 came out right afterward and o3 was just leagues ahead of R1 in the answers. As far as I can see, OpenAI isn't holding things back anymore so GPT 5.2 is the best they got and it's only a little better than Kimi based on the scores.
 

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Long article about successful efforts to cultivate the STEM education pipeline. Written by a dropout.

The classes quickly became a standard feature for thousands of schools — and the results were impressive. As the years passed, Chinese teams started to sweep most of the gold medals at Olympiads, far exceeding their rivals. In 2025, the Chinese national teams sent a total of 23 contestants to the Olympiads: 22 came home with gold medals. Starting in the 2000s, university admissions were reformed, giving more flexibility to colleges to allocate places without relying solely on the results of the gaokao. National competitions were set up for students at the end of their sophomore year of high school. Those who won top prizes in the national exam could receive direct admission to one of the 985 Project universities, China’s 39-member Ivy League equivalent.

The chance to skip the gaokao was a strong incentive for students to participate in the genius stream. The traditional pathway for high-school students in China is three years of study in the gaokao’s mandatory subjects of Chinese, English and Maths, as well as three more chosen subjects from physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography and politics. Exams in all six subjects are taken at the end of the third year. Genius-class students, on the other hand, focus on their “competition subjects”. A student competing in the International Physics Olympiad, for example, needs to not only finish three years of high-school physics but also at least half of the college-level syllabus, in order to be competitive enough to take the national exam. The very dedicated might not study much else at all.

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