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2026-09-28
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Yesterday, the main topics of discussion in the Chinese AI community were three lines: whether domestic models are sufficient for specific job roles, the user experience of personal agents like Cue and Muse, and the practical usage of AI video and agent tools. Posts compiling courses and tools received high save counts, but exaggerated claims need to be verified against the original sources. Retweets regarding restrictions on Chinese AI talent going abroad and DeepSeek's gray release also gained traction, though key facts still await confirmation from primary sources.

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01AYi · 2026-09-28

"Andrew Ng's Most Ruthless Agent Course This Year"

Wu En-da recently released a two-hour course on Agents, covering single agents, graph systems, and full automation, with the curriculum structure broken down by timestamp.

Reason for selection: Extremely high share and save rates. Verification needed: Only this retweet appears in search results; no post from Andrew Ng himself on the same day was found, and the title seems clearly designed to drive traffic. · Verification needed
02Cell · 2026-09-28

Embedded engineers: Domestic models are sufficient; no need for Codex / Claude.

Asked younger brother which AIs he uses; the answer was DeepSeek and GLM. When asked why not Codex or Claude, he replied that his work isn't that complex—C++ embedded systems and Python testing—and domestic models haven't encountered unsolvable problems yet.

Reason for selection: The highest-read and replied-to personal post yesterday, transforming the slogan "domestic models are sufficient" into concrete comparisons by job role.
03Great · 2026-09-28

Asked Muse how to prevent Claude account bans, but the account got banned anyway.

The author asked Muse how to prevent Claude from getting banned; Muse turned around and asked Claude, and then Claude got banned.

Reason for selection: An anecdote about an incident involving personal Agent ID collisions and unauthorized inquiries drew a lengthy response section, highlighting risk control controversies surrounding Muse and Claude.
04Knowledge Cat AI Lab · 2026-09-28

MiniMax H3 Video Reverse-Engineering Skill Open-Sourced, Used to Recreate Finished Clips

Use your own open-source MiniMax H3 video to reverse-engineer skills for image-to-video generation, resulting in face-swapped characters. The Skill emphasizes aligning on 'what the video is about' first, then compiling it into prompts, to avoid merely copying movements and distorting the story.

Reason for selection: The author demonstrated practical usage of their open-source video reverse-engineering skill, achieving high save counts among creator tool posts.
05Lonely · 2026-09-28

Qwen-Image 2.1 Local Deployment: Offline by default, NSFW enabled

Recommends local deployment of Qwen-Image 2.1, citing reasons such as no internet connection needed, no censorship, and low VRAM or unified memory requirements. Also includes distilled acceleration versions and Tongyi z-image-turbo.

Reason for selection: Image generation tutorial that continued gaining traction past midnight, exceeding 1,000 saves. Part of the same wave as the daytime review titled "Qwen dares to draw anything."
06lidang Li Dang (Persuading people to sell houses/study CS/buy SP500/pay 100/join OpenAI/Anthropic first person) · 2026-09-28

Computer Science Undergraduate Three Lessons: Buy the largest coding plan, then build your own small agent.

For the first lesson, purchase the largest coding plan and use Claude Code or Codex. For the second lesson, build a minimal coding agent yourself that can write code, compile, test, and run within the terminal. For the third lesson, supplement memory, skills, subagents, context compression, and permission management by comparing against Codex/Claude Code. He believes that completing these three lessons already puts you ahead of many computer science undergraduates.

Reason for selection: High shares and saves make it the most insider-opinion-like post (rather than a tutorial repost) in yesterday's "how to learn Agents" thread.
07meng shao · 2026-09-28

Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents - Nine Lectures

Stanford CS329A is taught by instructors with experience collaborating with Google Brain / DeepMind. The nine lecture videos are already on YouTube; the author made a trailer and suggests finishing the course during the holiday.

Reason for selection: Course resource post with very high saves, intertwined with discussions on whether Agents require systematic learning.
08Toronto Square Face · 2026-09-28

Citing Bloomberg: Spouses and children of AI talent are also subject to exit restrictions.

According to Bloomberg, China has expanded restrictions on AI talent leaving the country, including children and spouses.

Reason for selection: A policy post that spiked suddenly in the evening. Verification needed: Only paraphrased versions were retrieved this time; the original Bloomberg article was not accessed, so the scope is limited to the original text. · Verification needed
09AI Metaverse · 2026-09-28

Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: Agents Change Work Methods Without Altering Model Parameters

RRSI allows Agents to iterate prompts, tools, memory, and workflows without changing parameters, then use evaluations to decide what to keep. Experiments cited in the text claim that with fixed Claude Opus 4.8, Terminal-Bench 2.1 scores rose from 74.2% to 80.2%. The author also noted that these results come from project reports and require verification on one's own tasks.

Reason for selection: The discussion on Agent self-improvement was technical in nature, distinct from yesterday's course posts. It garnered high saves but few comments, resembling a reference post more than a discussion thread.
10Yu Wen · 2026-09-28

180 open-source skills that enable Claude and Codex to create videos

The feed has been full of Opus 5.5 motion effects lately. A list categorizes approximately 180 open-source skills and provides security ratings, covering talking-head editing, product promotional videos, science popularization animations, faceless short videos, and data charts.

Reason for selection: The most shared item yesterday in the "skill list" category, addressing the need for Opus 5.5 in video production.
11lifcc · 2026-09-28

Cloudflare Open-Sources Documentation Framework Nimbus: Documentation Written for Both Humans and Agents

Cloudflare Open-Sourced Documentation Framework Nimbus, With the Slogan That Documentation Should Be Written for Both Humans and AI Agents. After Reading the README, the author believes that the way documentation is written will change in the future.

Reason for selection: Developer-oriented open-source interpretation; saves significantly exceeded likes, indicating it was saved as a resource.
12Running Big Mao Leg · 2026-09-28

Job hunting for AI product managers: Knowing RAG and Agents is not enough

After Ten Years in Product Management and Interviewing Hundreds of Candidates: A Deep Dive into AI Product Manager Resumes, Applications, and Interviews, Explaining Why Mentioning RAG and Agents Is Still Not Enough to Prove AI Product Judgment.

Reason for selection: A long-form post during recruitment season with high reads and saves, critiquing job resumes filled with "buzzword bingo."
13Xiao Hu · 2026-09-28

Manus Launches Personal Agent Cue, Speculating It Was Preempted by Acquisition

Manus Launched Personal Agent Cue, Download at cue.im. The author feels it might have been launched alongside Meta, but was preempted by an acquisition.

Reason for selection: Close to Chinese interpretations following the official announcement of Manus 2.0 / Cue. Read counts were substantial. The claim "pushed together with Meta, hijacked by Mark Zuckerberg" is the author's speculation, not official wording. · Verification needed: Timing claims regarding a potential Meta acquisition are merely the author's speculation.
14Zane · 2026-09-28

DeepSeek V4.1 Pro Suspected to Be in Gray Scale Testing

Forwarded English reports stating that DeepSeek V4.1 Pro is being rolled out via account-based gray testing; it is not visible in the public model list, accompanied by personal screenshots.

Reason for selection: The most widely circulated "big news is coming" post of the day. Verification needed: The source is a screenshot slug from @LuminaBench, not official DeepSeek channels. Earlier that same day, @NFT_Chen posted a more detailed internal test interpretation. · Verification needed