China Telecom Releases Open-Source Xing4.0-29B-A4B Trained on Ascend
The full training stack runs on domestic Ascend hardware rather than NVIDIA GPUs, making it a concrete example of China's compute self-sufficiency efforts at the model level. Developers can download the open weights from Hugging Face or ModelScope and experiment with an agentic MoE that needs only 4B active parameters per token. It also offers a direct comparison point against similarly sized open MoE models.