A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

A stunning upset has just hit the top tier of China's domestic large language models. A new company's first model, with just 27 billion parameters, took second place overall in the CAICT's MCP benchmark test. Ahead of it was DeepSeek-V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter powerhouse that Liang Wenfeng had kept under wraps for nearly a year. The gap between them was a mere 1.3 percentage points. The dark...