China’s Trillion-Parameter Ring-1T Challenges GPT-5 | Microsoft Redefines Copilot, Thinking Machines Debates AGI Path
Key Takeaways China’s Ant Group launched Ring-1T, a 1-trillion parameter open-source reasoning model, achieving performance second only to OpenAI’s GPT-5 and intensifying the US-China AI race. Microsoft unveiled 12 significant updates to its Copilot AI assistant, including a new character “Mico” and shared “Groups” sessions, signaling a strategic shift to deeper integration across its ecosystem and increased reliance on its own MAI models. Thinking Machines Lab, a secretive startup, challenged the industry’s prevalent “scaling alone” strategy for AGI, arguing that…