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In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- South Korean giant Naver released the open-source model HyperCLOVA X Seed Think, a reasoning model with strong agent capabilities that leads national benchmark tests.
- According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI’s stock-based compensation reached an average of $1.5 million per employee in 2025, the highest in the history of major tech startups.
- Chinese AI lab IQuest Labs released IQuest-Coder-V1, a new model family that claims to outperform competitors like Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5.1 on programming tests.
- LMArena published 2025 results for leading AI models, with Google’s Gemini 3 Pro leading in text, vision, and search, while Veo 3.1 models topped the video category.
- Chinese AI startup Kimi reportedly raised $500 million in a new Series C round, increasing the company’s valuation to $4.3 billion.
AI Trending Tools:
- GLM-OCR: SOTA model for document understanding and extracting text/images
- Qwen3-Coder-Next: Alibaba’s open-source hybrid model for agent coding
- Ace-Step-1.5: Powerful open-source music generation model by Ace Music
