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  1. 36Kr · AI

    Embodied intelligence financing cools down, multiple robotics companies fall into work stoppages and bankruptcy

    Financing in the embodied intelligence industry cooled significantly after September. In the first half of October, there were only 19 financing deals totaling 4.934 billion yuan, far below August's 91 deals and 31.323 billion yuan. Nanjing Wujing Power has suspended work and owes wages, Yinghe Robotics convened a creditors' meeting, and Shenlan Robotics has been accepted for bankruptcy liquidation; multiple companies have entered bankruptcy or contraction procedures. Unitree's prospectus shows that among its humanoid robot revenue, scientific research and education account for 73.6%, while revenue used in scenarios such as intelligent manufacturing accounts for only 2.64%, and end-user demand has still not reached scale.

    Financing in the embodied intelligence industry cooled significantly after September. In the first half of October, there were only 19 financing deals totaling 4.934 billion yuan, far below August's 91 deals and 31.323 billion yuan. Nanjing Wujing Power has suspended work and owes wages, Yinghe Robotics convened a creditors' meeting, and Shenlan Robotics has been accepted for bankruptcy liquidation; multiple companies have entered bankruptcy or contraction procedures. Unitree's prospectus shows

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  2. TMTPost · AGI

    When DeepSeek Becomes a Subculture: Whale Girls, Teacher D, and an Anti-Commercial Narrative

    DeepSeek has spawned a fan-creation subculture among young people: anthropomorphic figures such as "Whale Girl" and "Teacher D" have emerged around its whale logo, along with memes, fan animations, desktop pets, and game mods—yet the company has never officially run the community. This popularity stems from its "anti-commercial" narrative—the API was cut in price at least four times between April and May this year, the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API was permanently reduced to a quarter of its original price, and the official DeepSeek V4 Flash API launched in July. But disputes over fan identity, the generation of rule-breaking content by bypassing safety reviews, and the future listing label could all become risk variables.

    DeepSeek has spawned a fan-creation subculture among young people: anthropomorphic figures such as "Whale Girl" and "Teacher D" have emerged around its whale logo, along with memes, fan animations, desktop pets, and game mods—yet the company has never officially run the community. This popularity stems from its "anti-commercial" narrative—the API was cut in price at least four times between April and May this year, the DeepSeek-V4-Pro API was permanently reduced to a quarter of its original pric

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  3. TMTPost · AGI

    ByteDance World Model Exposed: Zhang Yiming's Strategy and Its Divergence from Google Genie 4's Approach

    A TMTPost article states that ByteDance has listed world models as one of its four major AI priorities for 2026, with the goal of releasing at least one version by the end of the year, benchmarked against Google Genie 3, and that users can enter cloud-generated worlds via Pico headsets using voice and motion. The article also reviews Google Genie 4, released on October 28, which supports real-time changes to weather, camera movement, and the introduction of characters using natural language, and adds sound for the first time. The article also mentions that ByteDance's internal evaluations show its world model's overall performance is about 10% behind the then-current global SOTA, with generation metrics at about 20fps.

    A TMTPost article states that ByteDance has listed world models as one of its four major AI priorities for 2026, with the goal of releasing at least one version by the end of the year, benchmarked against Google Genie 3, and that users can enter cloud-generated worlds via Pico headsets using voice and motion. The article also reviews Google Genie 4, released on October 28, which supports real-time changes to weather, camera movement, and the introduction of characters using natural language, and

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  4. TMTPost · AGI

    Kimi K3.1 Pro hands-on test: Why does quota consumption still spark controversy after the API price cut?

    Kimi released K3.1 Pro on October 24, cutting the API input price from 20 yuan to 13 yuan per million tokens and the output price from 100 yuan to 68 yuan, but users questioned the cost-effectiveness due to rapid token consumption; on October 26, the company apologized, compensated quotas, and adjusted the model configuration. The author used a Pro subscription account to test five creative tasks, which consumed a total of about 25.48% of the monthly quota, with "The Peach Blossom Spring" at 6.91% the highest and the mechanical keyboard at 1.46% the lowest; consumption mainly came from Plugin entries and multiple rounds of revisions. The article also mentions the controversy over overseas bloggers being asked to hide paid partnership labels in promotions, and that former miHoYo international president Jin Wenyi joined Moonshot AI to oversee overseas expansion.

    Kimi released K3.1 Pro on October 24, cutting the API input price from 20 yuan to 13 yuan per million tokens and the output price from 100 yuan to 68 yuan, but users questioned the cost-effectiveness due to rapid token consumption; on October 26, the company apologized, compensated quotas, and adjusted the model configuration. The author used a Pro subscription account to test five creative tasks, which consumed a total of about 25.48% of the monthly quota, with "The Peach Blossom Spring" at 6.9

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  5. TMTPost · AGI

    What happened in the embodied intelligence industry 50 days after the release of GPT-6 Astra

    TMTPost's Digital Intelligence Frontier reviewed the impact on the embodied intelligence industry in the roughly 50 days since OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra: Astra can directly control a robotic arm to complete tasks such as drawing a bridge without training on specialized robot data, and Nvidia's Jim Fan said it pushed the benchmark of his company's robotics framework to about 99%. However, an evaluation by SenseTime together with multiple institutions concluded that while it already has the ability to complete embodied tasks, there is still a clear gap before practical use: a single inference takes an average of 18.56 seconds, and the task of putting a pen into a pen holder took more than 4 hours and cost 55 US dollars. Three usage patterns have emerged in the industry: directly serving as a policy model, reviewing and correcting VLA actions, and building simulation environments and data annotation; Unitree's Wang Xingxing said that next year GPT-7 may directly break through the embodied intelligence problem.

    TMTPost's Digital Intelligence Frontier reviewed the impact on the embodied intelligence industry in the roughly 50 days since OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra: Astra can directly control a robotic arm to complete tasks such as drawing a bridge without training on specialized robot data, and Nvidia's Jim Fan said it pushed the benchmark of his company's robotics framework to about 99%. However, an evaluation by SenseTime together with multiple institutions concluded that while it already has the abil

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  6. TMTPost · AGI

    Edge AI Daily Morning Brief (October 30): Intel Plunges 21%, Anthropic…

    Intel reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $16.5 billion and earnings per share of 52 cents, beating expectations, but its fourth-quarter revenue guidance of $15 billion to $16 billion fell short of the market's expectation of about $17.1 billion, and its gross margin guidance dropped from 43% to 38%; its stock price plunged about 21% in after-hours trading on October 29. Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO on October 26 (ticker ANT), with revenue of $16.286 billion in the first half of 2026, up about 1,300% year over year, and second-quarter operating profit of $974 million. The U.S. Department of Justice has opened inquiries into whether Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion affects AI competition.

    Intel reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $16.5 billion and earnings per share of 52 cents, beating expectations, but its fourth-quarter revenue guidance of $15 billion to $16 billion fell short of the market's expectation of about $17.1 billion, and its gross margin guidance dropped from 43% to 38%; its stock price plunged about 21% in after-hours trading on October 29. Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO on October 26 (ticker ANT), with revenue of $16.286 billion in the first half of 2026, up

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  7. TMTPost · AGI

    Zhiyuan Innovation Day proposes Worken effective intelligent work hours metric, 9,700 units shipped in first half

    At its 2026 Innovation Day, Zhiyuan proposed the Worken (effective intelligent work hours) metric, with the formula being the number of active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and then multiplied by the output efficiency ratio, used to measure the value actually created by robots. Zhiyuan disclosed that its 20,000th robot rolled off the line in September, with 9,700 units shipped in the first half, a global market share of over 43%, and revenue approaching 2 billion yuan. The company said the Longqi production line has been running stably for more than 7 months; during a 6-day livestream, robots performed a cumulative 64,824 operations with a success rate of 99.99%, and the on-site operations human-to-machine ratio dropped from nearly 1:1 to 3:1, with a target of 10:1 by the end of the year and 20:1 next year.

    At its 2026 Innovation Day, Zhiyuan proposed the Worken (effective intelligent work hours) metric, with the formula being the number of active robots multiplied by autonomous working hours and then multiplied by the output efficiency ratio, used to measure the value actually created by robots. Zhiyuan disclosed that its 20,000th robot rolled off the line in September, with 9,700 units shipped in the first half, a global market share of over 43%, and revenue approaching 2 billion yuan. The compan

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  8. Jiguo

    Huawei Mate 90 series and Changxiang 100 series and other four new phones released, starting at 1399 yuan

    At the Double 11 Renewal Season launch event, Huawei introduced the Mate 90 series, Pura90 Plus, and Changxiang 100 series new phones. The Changxiang 100 standard edition 6+128G is priced starting at 1399 yuan. The entire Mate 90 series is equipped with Kirin 9050 series logic folding chips, and the Pro Max's overall performance is 31% higher than the previous generation; it is also the industry's first with four cards and three standby. The new phones will go on sale at 10:08 on October 31, 2026.

    At the Double 11 Renewal Season launch event, Huawei introduced the Mate 90 series, Pura90 Plus, and Changxiang 100 series new phones. The Changxiang 100 standard edition 6+128G is priced starting at 1399 yuan. The entire Mate 90 series is equipped with Kirin 9050 series logic folding chips, and the Pro Max's overall performance is 31% higher than the previous generation; it is also the industry's first with four cards and three standby. The new phones will go on sale at 10:08 on October 31, 202

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    Google's Android XR development tools enter the stable phase, XREAL AURA released simultaneously

    On October 29, at the Android Dev Summit 2026, Google announced that multiple core Android XR development tools have entered the stable phase, with the 1.0 stable versions of Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime released on October 21. On the same day, XREAL AURA, a wired XR glasses product developed in collaboration between Google and XREAL, was officially released, featuring a 70-degree field of view and a glasses body weighing less than 95 grams, with a limited-time launch price starting at $1,099; it is now open for pre-order in the United States, Canada, and South Korea, with shipments expected in mid-November. The article also outlines the expansion of the Android XR hardware lineup since its announcement in December 2024, as well as Gemini as a unified AI entry point spanning headsets and smart glasses.

    On October 29, at the Android Dev Summit 2026, Google announced that multiple core Android XR development tools have entered the stable phase, with the 1.0 stable versions of Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime released on October 21. On the same day, XREAL AURA, a wired XR glasses product developed in collaboration between Google and XREAL, was officially released, featuring a 70-degree field of view and a glasses body weighing less than 95 grams, with a limited-time launch

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  10. Intelligent Manufacturing Network

    Xiaomi Unveils New-Generation Bionic Hand: 21 Degrees of Freedom Derived from 1,827 Factory SOPs

    Xiaomi has announced core information about its new-generation bionic hand, including 21 degrees of freedom, hybrid drive with 26 motors, and 1,500-point full-palm tactile sensing. The 21 degrees of freedom come from motion-capture data of 1,827 of the 2,579 standard operating procedures at Xiaomi's automobile factory; simulations show that the average stable grasp success rate at the 17-to-21 degrees-of-freedom tier is 15% to 38% higher than at the 6-to-15 tier, with gains slowing beyond 23. The palm primarily uses tendon-driven actuation plus 5 direct-drive degrees of freedom, weighs 324 grams, and can consume over 100W per hand under harsh operating conditions; there is currently no timeline for mass production, cost, or external supply.

    Xiaomi has announced core information about its new-generation bionic hand, including 21 degrees of freedom, hybrid drive with 26 motors, and 1,500-point full-palm tactile sensing. The 21 degrees of freedom come from motion-capture data of 1,827 of the 2,579 standard operating procedures at Xiaomi's automobile factory; simulations show that the average stable grasp success rate at the 17-to-21 degrees-of-freedom tier is 15% to 38% higher than at the 6-to-15 tier, with gains slowing beyond 23. Th

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  11. The New Stack

    Sam Altman once considered abandoning token-based pricing, but dropped the idea due to customer opposition

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company had considered abandoning token-based billing for its next-generation models in favor of a model where developers submit a prompt and receive a single price directly, similar to AWS's billing model, but dropped the idea because customer feedback was extremely negative. Customers said they need to know what they are paying for, and would even rather accept inflated token counts and pay higher fees than give up itemized billing they can verify. Altman acknowledged that tokens are "a kind of fake unit" and not a good way to measure usage, but OpenAI still uses token-based pricing for now.

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company had considered abandoning token-based billing for its next-generation models in favor of a model where developers submit a prompt and receive a single price directly, similar to AWS's billing model, but dropped the idea because customer feedback was extremely negative. Customers said they need to know what they are paying for, and would even rather accept inflated token counts and pay higher fees than give up itemized billing they can verify. Altma

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Thursday

  1. Zhi Dong Xi

    Dowson Tong Previews That the Official Version of Hunyuan Hy4 Will Add Visual Understanding for the First Time

    Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, will also be launched soon. Tencent also released the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One and Tencent Drive for the Agent era, and upgraded Agent Runtime, making systematic enhancements around context management, tool calling, secure sandboxes, observability, and evaluation. Dowson Tong also disclosed that over the past year, the number of active overseas customers of Tencent Cloud grew about threefold, and overseas AI demand achieved triple-digit growth.

    Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost

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  2. heise online

    GitHub Octoverse report: TypeScript remains the most-contributed-to language, over 40% of PRs drafted by agents

    GitHub said in its Octoverse report on October 28 that Pull Requests merged over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million.

    GitHub said in its Octoverse report on October 28 that Pull Requests merged over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as th

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  3. heise online

    Google and Xreal's co-developed Android XR glasses Aura go on sale, starting at $1,099

    Xreal Aura, the Android XR glasses developed by Xreal in collaboration with Google, is now on sale in the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea. The 12GB+256GB version costs $1,279 and the 16GB+512GB version $1,499, with promotional prices of $1,099 and $1,299 before the end of the year; shipping begins in mid-November. It weighs about 95 grams and uses a split architecture that puts the main computing unit and battery in a wired pocket host. It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chip and supports Gemini voice commands, hand tracking and a 70-degree field of view. Xreal says it offers more than 150 XR apps and experiences at launch, and is also launching a controller with a Gemini button and a wireless keyboard accessory.

    Xreal Aura, the Android XR glasses developed by Xreal in collaboration with Google, is now on sale in the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea. The 12GB+256GB version costs $1,279 and the 16GB+512GB version $1,499, with promotional prices of $1,099 and $1,299 before the end of the year; shipping begins in mid-November. It weighs about 95 grams and uses a split architecture that puts the main computing unit and battery in a wired pocket host. It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chip

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  4. heise online

    Austrian court confirms 30-year statute of limitations for Volkswagen dieselgate compensation; Apple releases touchscreen MacBook Pro

    Austria's Supreme Court (OGH) has confirmed in a final ruling that the statute of limitations for dieselgate victims' claims against Volkswagen is 30 years rather than 3 years, and Austrian car owners can still sue Volkswagen. Apple has released its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, with the 14-inch model starting at nearly 3,300 euros and the 16-inch model starting at 3,900 euros, featuring Tandem-OLED and Dynamic Island for the first time. Microsoft's quarterly revenue and profit exceeded expectations, with cloud business growing 30% and Copilot usage in Microsoft 365 growing 50%.

    Austria's Supreme Court (OGH) has confirmed in a final ruling that the statute of limitations for dieselgate victims' claims against Volkswagen is 30 years rather than 3 years, and Austrian car owners can still sue Volkswagen. Apple has released its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, with the 14-inch model starting at nearly 3,300 euros and the 16-inch model starting at 3,900 euros, featuring Tandem-OLED and Dynamic Island for the first time. Microsoft's quarterly revenue and profit exceeded expecta

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  5. heise online

    Kubernetes Establishes Workload Conformance Working Group to Set Conformance Standards for Application Runtime Behavior

    The Kubernetes community has established the Workload Conformance Working Group to create unified standards for the runtime behavior of applications on clusters and to provide automated testing tools for running workloads. Existing certifications such as Certified Kubernetes and Kubernetes AI Conformance only check cluster infrastructure; there is no corresponding yardstick on the application side, and problems such as missing Pod Disruption Budgets, processes not responding to termination signals, and dependencies on removed API versions are only discovered during Node-Drain or upgrades. The working group is supported by SIG Apps and SIG Architecture and requires that every specification be objectively verifiable by a test binary. The first stable version is expected to take two to three Kubernetes release cycles.

    The Kubernetes community has established the Workload Conformance Working Group to create unified standards for the runtime behavior of applications on clusters and to provide automated testing tools for running workloads. Existing certifications such as Certified Kubernetes and Kubernetes AI Conformance only check cluster infrastructure; there is no corresponding yardstick on the application side, and problems such as missing Pod Disruption Budgets, processes not responding to termination signa

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  6. Analytics India Magazine

    Articul8 Launches Decision Model Bivia to Help Enterprise AI Agents Make Structured Decisions

    Articul8 has released the decision model Bivia, which is provided via API for enterprise AI agents to make structured decisions across formats such as text, images, and documents, supporting five decision types: Choice, Boolean, Score, Set, and Span. It can be specialized for enterprise data, industry knowledge, and historical decisions, and offers three operating modes: Fast, Fast+think, and Deep, with the option to abstain when evidence is insufficient. According to Articul8's internal evaluation, after domain training, Bivia approaches full marks on some energy and hardware design tasks, and completes about 70% of workflows in internal evaluations, compared with about 30% for comparison solutions.

    Articul8 has released the decision model Bivia, which is provided via API for enterprise AI agents to make structured decisions across formats such as text, images, and documents, supporting five decision types: Choice, Boolean, Score, Set, and Span. It can be specialized for enterprise data, industry knowledge, and historical decisions, and offers three operating modes: Fast, Fast+think, and Deep, with the option to abstain when evidence is insufficient. According to Articul8's internal evaluat

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  7. Unite.AI

    Solink Secures Over $100 Million in Funding Led by Vertu Capital to Accelerate AI Vision…

    Ottawa-based Solink has announced the completion of over $100 million in new funding, led by Vertu Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs Alternatives' Growth Equity, among others. The funds will be used to accelerate its AI Vision Intelligence deployment. Its platform transforms existing security cameras into real-time business intelligence, covering more than 35,000 customer sites across 65 countries and managing 500,000 camera feeds. Solink previously completed a $60 million Series C funding round in 2023.

    Ottawa-based Solink has announced the completion of over $100 million in new funding, led by Vertu Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs Alternatives' Growth Equity, among others. The funds will be used to accelerate its AI Vision Intelligence deployment. Its platform transforms existing security cameras into real-time business intelligence, covering more than 35,000 customer sites across 65 countries and managing 500,000 camera feeds. Solink previously completed a $60 million Series C f

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    In 2026, full-color AI glasses are launching in clusters; RayNeo preheats the full-color Micro-LED optical waveguide iO+

    In 2026, full-color AI glasses are making intensive appearances. RayNeo is preheating its fourth-generation binocular full-color AI glasses, the iO+, whose full-color light engine is smaller than 0.18cc, already approaching the level of monochrome Micro-LED optical engines. In the same period, Rokid released the full-color AI glasses Rokid Color, adopting a Micro-LED and diffractive optical waveguide solution, priced from 4,999 yuan. Since the X1 in 2021, RayNeo has continuously invested in full-color Micro-LED optical waveguides; in 2023, the X2 became the world's first consumer-grade mass-produced binocular full-color Micro-LED optical waveguide AR glasses.

    In 2026, full-color AI glasses are making intensive appearances. RayNeo is preheating its fourth-generation binocular full-color AI glasses, the iO+, whose full-color light engine is smaller than 0.18cc, already approaching the level of monochrome Micro-LED optical engines. In the same period, Rokid released the full-color AI glasses Rokid Color, adopting a Micro-LED and diffractive optical waveguide solution, priced from 4,999 yuan. Since the X1 in 2021, RayNeo has continuously invested in full

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  9. Semiconductor Industry Observation

    Intel and Tencent Cloud Launch New-Generation Cloud Instances Based on Xeon 6+ to Accelerate Agentic AI Deployment

    At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Intel and Tencent Cloud launched new-generation cloud instances based on Intel Xeon 6+ processors, delivering an overall performance improvement of more than 30% over the previous generation. Xeon 6+ offers up to 288 efficiency cores, and a single processor can support the stable deployment of more than 1,000 agents, while also introducing Intel TDX for hardware-level isolation. The two parties also leveraged IAA to bring 2M-page decompression latency down to the microsecond level, accelerating average time by 16x, and CubeSandbox can support 350 concurrent sandbox creation requests on a single machine.

    At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Intel and Tencent Cloud launched new-generation cloud instances based on Intel Xeon 6+ processors, delivering an overall performance improvement of more than 30% over the previous generation. Xeon 6+ offers up to 288 efficiency cores, and a single processor can support the stable deployment of more than 1,000 agents, while also introducing Intel TDX for hardware-level isolation. The two parties also leveraged IAA to bring 2M-page decompression

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