ByteDance is discussing training a model exceeding 5 trillion parameters, which would surpass Alibaba’s Qwen3.8‑Max (2.4 trillion params) and Moonshot AI’s K3 (2.8 trillion) to become the largest-known model in China. The project is at an early stage and does not guarantee a release. It would be led by Seed Foundation head Xiang Liang with LLM pretraining-data lead Shen Ke. Seed is reorganizing its structure and reallocating responsibilities and resources to support the effort.

CITIC Securities said the likelihood that the FCC’s rumored ban on Chinese optical modules will be implemented in its current form is low, noting U.S. market dependence on Chinese modules is a major barrier. Chinese suppliers have grown global share and proven competitiveness via technology accumulation and scale manufacturing rather than reliance on a single market. High China–U.S. interdependence in the optical-communications supply chain means such restrictions would raise procurement costs for North American cloud providers and delay their deployment schedules as they decouple from large-scale Chinese deliveries. CITIC said leading Chinese module vendors already have integrated advantages across technology iteration, mass production and client responsiveness in AI high-speed interconnects, leaving the ban subject to significant practical industry resistance.

據伊拉克國家通訊社援引官方消息人士稱，美聯儲向伊拉克央行運送了5億美元現金。