🚀 ZDTaichu5.0-9B is now on ModelScope! 🤖 An on-device multimodal model from TaichuAI. At 9B parameters it runs on a single GPU and brings spatial reasoning, embodied AI and agentic tool use to edge deployment. Qwen3.5-9B backbone + C-RADIOv4-H vision encoder, 128K context, any-resolution image and video input. 🧭 Spatial reasoning: leads the compared 10B-scale open VLMs (Qwen3.5-9B, STEP3-VL-10B, gemma4-8B-E4B) and scores above Gemini 3 Pro, Grok 4 and GPT-5.2 on ViewSpatial, MMSI-Bench and MindCube-tiny 🛠️ Agent: highest among the compared open models on TAU2-Bench, Claw-Eval and IFEval 📄 First-tier results on documents, charts, OCR, visual math and video, with a ready-to-use vLLM branch and Docker image 🧠 Entropy-Gated Adaptive Recurrent Reasoning: extra latent refinement steps go only to the hard tokens

Zhen Ding Technology (ZDT), the world’s biggest printed circuit board maker (PCB), saw revenue from servers, optical modules and substrates rise 113% year-on-year in the 1st half of 2026, media report, adding executives said they accounted for 21.6% of total revenue of NT$89.2 billion, up from 11.7% last year. ZDT plans to spend NT$80 billion on capex this year, with investment continuing into 2027-2028.

OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER PCBs: MS highlighting ZDT $4958 TT as beneficiary of team's recent upward revision of optical transceiver TAM. Will gain share due to technical ability & capacity to make the denser, more complex mSAP PCBs needed for 800G/1.6T transceivers, which command 2-4x the ASP of 400G. Worried about CPO pushout? Pluggable demand will remain strong.