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China Telecom AI's Xing4.0-29B-A4B (formerly the TeleChat line) is a mixture-of-experts model with 29B total and 4B active parameters and a native 256K context window, extensible to 512K. The company claims it is the first model of this scale trained entirely on Ascend NPUs with MindSpore. Community GGUF quantizations from Venastine-Research are already available.

China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Technology has released Xing4.0-29B-A4B, a 29-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with only 4B parameters active per token and native 256K context. The company claims it is the first model of this scale trained entirely on Huawei's Ascend NPU platform using the MindSpore framework.