A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) system has topped an international ranking for autonomous scientific research, pulling ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code and other top agents. As of Tuesday, the Zhejiang University-led Qiushi Engine held the top overall spot on the ResearchClawBench leaderboard, with Open Science Desktop in second and Claude Code in third. ResearchClawBench tests the ability of AI agents to independently carry out research and compares their results against reference papers...
Chinese tech giants are doubling down on enterprise artificial intelligence agents with new products unveiled at the country’s top AI summit, signalling heightened domestic rivalry to win over business clients as agent-based AI adoption accelerates. At the four-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai which concludes on Monday, major tech companies including Ant Group, Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu launched or showcased offerings designed to integrate...
Researchers at TikTok parent ByteDance have discovered a new scaling law governing how fast artificial intelligence agents can improve by performing real-world tasks, a finding that could help prolong the AI boom just as traditional development methods hit a wall. In a research paper published on Thursday, ByteDance’s Seed AI team revealed that AI agents – autonomous software that executes tasks on a human’s behalf – can double their learning speed every three months by interacting with...