Chips: Stefan Tilger, interim CEO of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, told Reuters the company could still reunite with its Chinese operations after more than a year of operating separately. He said another option is taking an equity stake in the Chinese business, provided European industrial interests are protected, and that if the split becomes permanent, Chinese parent Wingtech should be compensated. Before the split, Nexperia made wafers in Europe and sent them to China for assembly and testing, a production chain for automotive and industrial chips that the dispute pulled apart.
Models: Baidu opened API access to ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview through its Qianfan platform. It is the first post-trained version of ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, released earlier this month. The model has a one-million-token context window and uses 14 billion of its 280 billion parameters per token. Baidu plans to release the weights under the Apache 2.0 license.
Assistants: ByteDance plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta's Muse in the coming weeks, according to IT Home citing Bloomberg. According to the report, co-founder Zhang Yiming told an internal meeting that ByteDance can compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, but estimated it would take until 2029 or 2030 to reach their level, pointing to a gap in pretraining data.
