iFLYTEK unveils Spark X2.6, a 293B-A30B MoE trained on Chinese compute; open-sources on-device 4B and debuts SparkAudio 1.0 (report)

Verified (fact)

According to Pandaily, iFLYTEK announced Spark X2.6 at its 1024 developer event. It is an MoE model with 30B of its 293B total parameters active, and was reportedly trained on Chinese-made computing infrastructure. The company open-sourced 'Spark X2.6-4B', which runs on devices, and also debuted the speech model 'SparkAudio 1.0'. The excerpt does not say how the large model is offered or which chips were used for training.

Needs fact-check (claim)

The claim that it was trained entirely on Chinese compute is reported from the company's own account.

Why it matters (interpretation)

It adds another case of a Chinese company training a 300B-class MoE on domestic chips under export controls, following DeepSeek's pretraining on Huawei chips and StepFun's support for Chinese chips.

Sources

• Press iFLYTEK Launches Spark X2.6, Trained on Domestic Compute, and Open-Sources a 4B On-Device Model Pandaily

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