not much happened today

**South Korea's Ministry of Science** launched a coordinated program with **5 companies** to develop sovereign foundation models from scratch, featuring large-scale MoE architectures like **SK Telecom A.X-K1 (519B total / 33B active)** and **LG K-EXAONE (236B MoE / 23B active)**, with a total first-round budget of **~$140M**. This initiative contrasts with EU approaches by focusing funding on fewer stakeholders and explicitly budgeting for data. Meanwhile, **Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2512** emerges as a leading open-source image generation model, rapidly integrated into various toolchains including AI-Toolkit and local inference paths with quantization support, and hosted on platforms like Replicate. The model has undergone extensive blind testing with over **10,000 rounds** on AI Arena, highlighting its ecosystem adoption.