Shanghai's top open agent model arrived with no announcement at all.
Shanghai AI Lab quietly posted Atria Dawn, a 744-billion-parameter agent model, on 11 September. Its paper, out three days later, claims the best score on five of 16 agent benchmarks. The weights carry an MIT licence, so any team with enough chips can run them.
Why it mattersA free model is now trading blows with the paid agents it was measured against. That decides whether serious AI work stays a rental or becomes something you own.
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