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TaichuAI Open-Sources ZDTaichu5.0-9B Spatial Multimodal Model

September 18

TaichuAI has open-sourced ZDTaichu5.0-9B, an approximately 9-billion-parameter multimodal foundation model aimed at general visual understanding, spatial reasoning, agentic tool use, and embodied-AI…

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