Artificial Intelligence thread
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has anyone tried Qwen3-Coder-Next? This looks unbelievable. I've needed something that can run locally in under 128GB VRAM. And this allows me to do that. Then, I don't need to expose any of my proprietary code to the AI services.
Meta Platforms is moving forward with integrating the newly acquired artificial intelligence agent start-up Manus, according to two sources, despite Beijing’s probe into the US$2 billion deal.
Some members of the Manus team in Singapore had moved into Facebook parent Meta’s offices and were granted Meta corporate accounts and other access, one of the sources said.
Meta was also offering its employees the opportunity to transfer to Manus, preferring Chinese-speaking staff, a second source said.
The merger not only involves talent but also operations. Meta recently embedded Manus into its Ads Manager so that advertisers on the platform could get performance analytics and optimisation advice.
Neither Meta nor Manus immediately responded to requests for comment on Thursday.
The integration has proceeded despite an ongoing investigation by the Chinese government.
In early January, just days after the deal was announced, the Ministry of Commerce said it would review and investigate the deal to assess whether it was consistent with China’s regulations on export controls, technology exports and external investments.
There has been no update since.
The South China Morning Post reported on the investigation a day before the official announcement, citing two sources.
One of them said Beijing feared the Manus case could set an uncomfortable precedent for other Chinese AI companies to follow by moving their operations abroad.
The start-up rose to fame in March 2025 after releasing what it described as the world’s first general AI agent – software that can complete tasks on a user’s behalf.
The team initially operated in Beijing and Wuhan, but moved to Singapore by mid-June, laying off some China-based staff and shutting down its Chinese social media accounts.
China updated its technology export controls in 2020 to cover certain algorithms, a change widely viewed as strengthening its legal tools to intervene in transactions after Washington pressured ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US operations.
Meanwhile, Washington has also launched stringent rules restricting American capital from supporting Chinese AI and semiconductor firms.
Beijing should be making arrests if they are moving forward without a go ahead from the govt.
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This incident makes me feel that China's response to such matters is too slow. It should have forcibly suspended and blocked the acquisition at the very outset when it was first initiated.
Given that many new Chinese tech companies are attempting to establish R&D centers in Singapore, a pro-American country, such acquisitions appear even more problematic.
I conducted a brief investigation and found that China has not yet blocked this transaction. Furthermore, all of Manus's departments have relocated to Singapore and severed ties with China. I believe it would be extremely difficult for China to halt this acquisition plan under the current circumstances.
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why did they go abroad tho? alsp if ever how will CN enforce their decision about it? like in Singapore?