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X Platform April 2nd AI Brief: Artemis II Successful Launch, Seedance 2.0 API Opens, ColaOS Begins Beta Testing

Artemis II Successfully Launched, Humanity’s First Return to the Moon in 50 Years

Multiple bloggers followed the launch dynamics of NASA’s Artemis II mission. NASA’s official account frequently updated the entire process from hatch closure, countdown, rocket ignition, to the successful separation of the Orion spacecraft from the rocket’s upper stage, and announced that astronauts are conducting a “proximity operation” test to manually control the Orion spacecraft, preparing for subsequent docking missions. The four astronauts will execute an approximately 10-day lunar flyby mission, laying the foundation for future long-term lunar stays and Mars missions.

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Seedance 2.0 API Officially Opens, Rapid Integration Across Platforms

Some bloggers noted that Seedance 2.0 officially opened its API that day, with major platforms like Volcano Engine (ByteDance) sequentially integrating it, ending queuing status. One platform was among the first to support uploading real-person photos to generate videos, with excellent facial consistency performance, praised as “truly amazing for generating advertisements.” Meanwhile, LibTV made significant updates in conjunction with Seedance 2.0, supporting the Extend continuous generation feature, capable of generating complete videos of 30 seconds or even over 60 seconds in sequence, maintaining consistency in characters, scenes, and color tones. The platform also integrates multiple models including Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Sora 2, and Seedance 2.0 for one-stop use without switching or recharging. Additionally, some bloggers shared extreme tests using Seedance 2.0 combined with AI music creation across multiple dimensions like lip-syncing, singing, actions, fantasy (xianxia), and dance groups, stating “this is indeed a new era for AI imagery and music videos.”

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ColaOS Released: “The First Agent OS with a Soul” Begins Beta Testing

Some bloggers mentioned that ColaOS was released late on April Fools’ Day, positioned as “the first operating system with a soul in human history.” It uses voice input as an entry point and personalized Agents as the core interaction method. The product design is known for its simplicity and restraint, and has received positive reviews during the beta testing period, evaluated as “setting a sample for future AI product design.” Other bloggers revealed they have been using it extensively for a while, pointing out its low barrier to entry, realistic AI voice and personality tuning, strong tool invocation capabilities, and “making you unconsciously want to chat and converse indefinitely.” The official side is also recruiting Agent system architects, Agent evaluation engineers, and Agent infrastructure engineers.

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Qwen3.6-Plus Released, Shift in OpenAI vs Anthropic Secondary Market Sentiment

Some bloggers mentioned that Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus that day, positioned as “the strongest domestic programming model,” surpassing GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 in SWE-bench and Claw-Eval benchmarks, and is now available on Alibaba Cloud Bailian, priced at less than one-tenth of Claude. Alibaba has recently been releasing an average of one model per day (3/30 Qwen3.5-Omni, 4/1 Wan2.7-Image, 4/2 Qwen3.6-Plus). Meanwhile, some bloggers cited Bloomberg reports that the OpenAI secondary market is cooling—$600 million in shares cannot find buyers, with valuations around a 10% discount; whereas the Anthropic secondary market is exceptionally hot, with demand registrations exceeding $1.6 billion and secondary market quotations offering a premium of over 50%. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have started promoting OpenAI shares without charging carry fees, interpreted by the market as a promotional signal. Comments point out the fundamental difference lies in Anthropic’s dominant position in the enterprise market, with a steeper growth curve.

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Claude Code NO_FLICKER Mode Launched, Mouse Operations Enter the Terminal

Some bloggers mentioned that Claude Code released the NO_FLICKER mode, which completely eliminates terminal flickering and jumping by taking over the entire terminal viewport (alternate screen buffer), and also includes full mouse operation support—click to position cursor, click to collapse/expand tool output, click URLs to open directly in the browser, drag to select text automatically copies to clipboard, double-click to select word, triple-click to select line. This mode requires version v2.1.88 or above and can be enabled with a single command (CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 claude). Other bloggers added that this mode also reduces memory and CPU usage. Developers also pointed out that in NO_FLICKER mode, the native Cmd+F search becomes non-functional and needs to be replaced with Ctrl+O then pressing /.

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Other Noteworthy Developments

TRAE SOLO Standalone Client Released. Some bloggers introduced that TRAE released the SOLO standalone client, including web and PC versions, with a built-in Skills marketplace and two working modes (Code mode for developers, MTC mode for non-technical users), supporting complex task planning, GitHub Issues classification and filtering, and visual dashboards. Free during the beta testing period.

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AI Image Generation Efficiency Continues to Improve. Some bloggers shared that using Emoji directly as prompts (e.g., “match the 😏 expression”) can quickly generate corresponding character expressions, saving text description costs. Any multimodal model can directly reverse-engineer image generation prompts, supporting structured format output like JSON, YAML, etc.

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Cool Reflections Amid the Vibe Coding Craze. Some bloggers pointed out that Vibe Coding lowers the barrier to writing code but simultaneously raises the risk of misjudging engineering complexity—”being able to quickly make a demo” ≠ “being able to make a product.” Boundaries, coupling, stability, and long-term maintenance are the real difficulties; the lower the barrier, the more people may fall into an engineering black hole.

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OpenClaw Releases 2026.4.1 Update. This version adds over 40 stability and execution fixes, including GLM 5.1 + anti-loop failover, AWS Bedrock Guardrails support, /tasks task management, Cron per-job tool whitelists, etc., and (half-jokingly) announces a name change to ClankerBot.

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Google One AI Membership Storage Automatically Upgraded. Google One AI members’ storage space has been automatically upgraded from 2TB to 5TB without any action required.

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Discussion on Graduate School Exam Situation: The Golden Period Has Passed. Some bloggers systematically analyzed the competition intensity of different batches for the graduate school entrance exam, pointing out that 2015-2017 and 2018-2019 were the two optimal windows with the best admission ratios, 2020-2021 caught the last train of expansion, while competition deteriorated sharply after 2022, with the lament that “even getting into graduate school now doesn’t guarantee a job” resonating widely.

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Crawl Statistics

  • Timeline posts scanned: 240
  • Bloggers hit: 20
  • Total tweets hit: 104
  • Weighted tweet score: 83.6
  • Original tweets: 49
  • RT tweets: 19
  • Crawl attempts: 1
  • Boundary coverage status: Complete (confidence spans yesterday’s boundary)