Huawei has officially launched HarmonyOS 6, introducing a new intelligent assistant and enhanced AI features. The operating system is now open to developers, with over 8 million developers participating in its expanding ecosystem. The launch was announced at the Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. Huawei also highlighted advancements in its CloudMatrix 384 cloud system, designed to compete with Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 rack-scale system. The HarmonyOS 6 beta is expected to be featured on the upcoming Mate 80 series in the fourth quarter of 2025. Additionally, Huawei plans to showcase HarmonyOS games at ChinaJoy 2025. In parallel, the Chinese AI landscape is witnessing growth with the release of the open-weight model Pangu Pro 72B A16B, which incorporates an innovative Mixture of Grouped Experts (MoGE) architecture. Meanwhile, the Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi K2, an open-source AI model that outperforms proprietary models such as GPT-4 and Claude while operating at 95% lower cost. Kimi K2 has achieved top scores on creative story-writing benchmarks, surpassing previous champions, and demonstrates competitive performance on thematic generalization and hallucination benchmarks. This development marks a notable shift in the AI industry toward more accessible and cost-efficient open-source models.
Kimi K2 scores 20.4 on the Confabulations/Hallucinations benchmark (lower values are better). https://t.co/AwGgltDTjI
Kimi K2 scores in the middle of the pack on the Thematic Generalization benchmark, with an average rank of 1.94 (lower is better; 1.00 is a perfect score). https://t.co/qW9u8nS99M
In April, I identified an emerging inflection point where open-source AI models would challenge proprietary alternatives. Today, with releases like Moonshot Kimi K2 my inflection point theory has been proven. https://t.co/4Clu9utQBX https://t.co/OpJ1tFQ31d