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AI Daily | October 23, 2026 Afternoon Edition: Anthropic Donates Agent Skills Standard, MINIMAX Open-Sources M3.1 Flash as Hong Kong Shares Surge

Published: 2026-10-23  |  Category: AI Daily  |  Read: about 8 min

Top Stories This Afternoon

  • Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation's AAIF: integrated by 70+ agent platforms, 1 million Skills published and 280 million cumulative installs
  • MINIMAX open-sources the M3.1 Flash model: costs cut by 70%, Hong Kong shares surge over 13%, and the open-source strategy pays off
  • Hi3D, a domestic Chinese 3D large model, is released: performance is claimed to beat GPT-6 Astra, a new breakthrough in domestic 3D generation
  • The Beijing Internet Court clarifies the ownership of rights in AI works: hearing AI-related cases, it establishes the principle that rights belong to humans
  • 360 Nano Work upgrades its AI editor: multimedia collaborative creation arrives as the AI office track keeps heating up

1. Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation: the AI Agent Ecosystem Moves Toward Standardization

AnthropicAgent SkillsLinux Foundation

On October 22, Anthropic officially announced that it is donating the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, turning it from a single-company project into a community-governed standard for AI agent capabilities. It is the second major open standard Anthropic has donated to AAIF, following the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

  • Agent Skills can be understood as the instruction manual for AI agents: a folder containing a SKILL.md specification file that teaches an agent a specific task or domain knowledge
  • Since its release in December 2025, more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated it
  • The number of public Skills has reached about 1 million, with about 280 million cumulative installs
  • The donation covers the name, logo, GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain; the standard will remain open, community-led and vendor-neutral

On the same day, AAIF also announced that it is taking on three projects: Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba. An open governance landscape for the AI agent ecosystem is taking shape fast.

Editor's note: Anthropic has donated two core standards, MCP and Agent Skills, to neutral foundations in succession, showing a strategy of promoting the ecosystem through openness. Once Agent Skills becomes a cross-platform universal standard, agent capabilities can be reused without vendor lock-in, which is profoundly significant for the entire industry.

2. MINIMAX Open-Sources M3.1 Flash: Hong Kong Shares Surge 13%, Costs Cut by 70%

MINIMAXOpen SourceHong Kong Stocks

Hong Kong-listed MINIMAX announced today that it is open-sourcing the M3.1 Flash model. The stock surged more than 13% after the news, making it the biggest highlight in Hong Kong's AI sector today. M3.1 Flash focuses on extreme cost-effectiveness, cutting inference costs by 70% while maintaining relatively high performance.

  • M3.1 Flash uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, greatly improving inference efficiency
  • Costs are about 70% lower than the previous generation, making it suitable for large-scale enterprise deployment
  • The open-source strategy has won strong recognition from capital markets, with market value growing significantly in a single day
  • MINIMAX has recently been advancing a dual-engine strategy of open source plus commercialization

Against the backdrop of an overall rally in Hong Kong's large-model concept sector, MINIMAX's open-source move once again proves that open source is not only a technology strategy but also a business strategy. Building a developer ecosystem through open source and then monetizing through enterprise services is becoming the standard playbook for large-model companies.

3. Hi3D, a Domestic Chinese 3D Large Model, Is Released: Performance Surpasses GPT-6 Astra

Hi3D3D GenerationDomestic AI

A domestic Chinese team today released the Hi3D 3D large model, whose performance is claimed to outperform OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra in 3D generation across multiple benchmarks. This marks domestic 3D generative AI rapidly catching up with, and even surpassing, the world's top level.

  • Hi3D supports generating high-quality 3D models directly from text and images
  • It performs strongly on core metrics such as geometric accuracy and texture quality
  • Generation speed is significantly faster than comparable products
  • It can be applied to games, film and television, e-commerce and many other 3D content production scenarios
Industry signal: 3D content generation has long been one of the toughest challenges in the large-model field. Hi3D's release shows that domestic Chinese teams have made substantive breakthroughs in multimodal 3D understanding, which could significantly lower the cost of 3D content production in industries such as gaming and film.

4. Beijing Internet Court: Clarifying the Principle That Rights in AI Works Belong to Humans

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The Beijing Internet Court today heard a copyright case involving AI-generated content and explicitly established the judicial principle that rights belong to humans. This is another important statement by China's judicial system on the ownership of rights in AI-generated content.

  • The court held that rights in AI-generated content should belong to the humans who use AI tools, not to the AI itself
  • The ruling emphasized humans' leading and creative contribution in AI-assisted creation
  • This principle provides legal certainty for the commercial use of AI-generated content
  • It has exemplary significance for protecting users' rights in applications such as AI painting and AI writing

5. 360 Nano Work Upgrades Its AI Editor: Multimedia Collaborative Creation

360AI OfficeCollaborative Creation

Nano Work, an office product under 360, announced today that it has upgraded its AI editor with new multimedia collaborative creation features, deeply integrating AI capabilities into work scenarios such as document editing, presentation creation and data analysis.

  • The AI editor supports intelligent collaboration across multiple content types, including text, images, tables and code
  • New AI-assisted layout and one-click beautification features
  • Supports real-time multi-user collaboration, with AI automatically handling formatting conflicts
  • 360 continues to invest in the AI office track, competing with the likes of WPS and Feishu

6. New AI Elderly Care Trends: Bionic Panda Companions, Exoskeleton Sales Surge 166%

AI Elderly CareEmbodied AISilver Economy

The application of AI technology in elderly care is accelerating. Industry data released today shows that bionic panda companion robots have been put into use in multiple care facilities, while sales of AI exoskeletons jumped 166% year on year. The silver economy is becoming a new blue ocean for AI applications.

  • The bionic panda companion robot has emotional interaction capabilities and can chat with seniors and remind them to take medication
  • AI exoskeletons help seniors with limited mobility regain the ability to walk independently
  • Elderly-care AI products are moving from concept demos to large-scale procurement
  • The industry expects the AI elderly-care market to exceed 10 billion yuan in 2026

7. 2026 Bund Annual Conference Closes in Shanghai: Focus on AI and the Global Economy

Bund Annual ConferenceGlobal EconomyAI Governance

The 2026 Bund Annual Conference was held in Huangpu District, Shanghai, from October 19 to 22 under the theme Technology, Geopolitics and the Global Economy. Many guests from government, business and academia at home and abroad held in-depth discussions on AI's impact on the global economy.

  • The conference focused on how AI technological change is reshaping global industrial chains
  • Participating experts discussed the sustainability and potential risks of the AI investment boom
  • The importance of international cooperation in AI governance was emphasized
  • Shanghai continues to strengthen its position as a global AI innovation hub

Today's Data at a Glance

EventKey Figure
Agent Skills installsAbout 280 million
Published Agent SkillsAbout 1 million
Number of integrated platforms70+
MINIMAX M3.1 Flash costDown 70%
MINIMAX Hong Kong stock gainOver 13%
AI exoskeleton sales growth+166%
Average price of domestic large models13.46 yuan per million tokens
Daily token consumption500 trillion tokens

Sources

  • IT Home: Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard
  • CSDN: AI news roundup, October 23, 2026
  • Sina Tech: AI hotspots hourly report, October 23, 2026
  • Baidu Baike: Latest AI news, October 23, 2026
  • Phoenix Tech: China's large models enter an era of being both expensive and busy
  • D1EV: Anthropic has donated the AI agent skills standard