Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and positions the M5 Ultra Mac Studio as its flagship machine, targeting AI developers and designers running large language models locally. The new M5 Ultra skips the M4 generation and features improved cooling with heavier copper heatsinks, maintaining the same compact design while addressing surging demand from the AI coding community.
Xing4.0-29B-A4B is a 29-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts language model released by China Telecom, trained entirely on Huawei's Ascend NPU hardware rather than Nvidia GPUs. The model activates only 4 billion parameters per token, supports up to 512K context windows, and is optimized for agentic tasks including tool calling, coding, and multi-step planning. It integrates with deployment frameworks like vLLM and agent platforms including Claude Code.