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Chinese humanoid robots set multiple performances ahead of human records at the World Humanoid Robot Games opening in Beijing. One robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second record from 2009. The event’s results further emphasize China’s rapid robotics progress while increasing U.S. policy scrutiny of Chinese humanoid robot imports and makers.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft’s MAI-Base-2 announcement sets the pace for the day, shifting attention from flashy model demos to the plumbing that makes large language models practical. The 2T-parameter base model is designed to become a full LLM after additional training, with 80B parameters activated per prompt. Microsoft says it trained the model for 38 days on 16,000 Nvidia GB200 chips using 50T tokens, and that MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient. The company’s licensing plan—availability through “trusted partners” on Azure—signals a platform strategy: build a reusable foundation that can spawn multiple task-specific LLM lines, rather than betting everything on a single downstream model.
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