, Oct. 13 -- China Agricultural University (CAU) launched Shennong Large Model 3.0 on Monday at the 2025 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2025) in Beijing, signaling a major step toward making AI more accessible and practical for use in agriculture.

According to Wang Yaojun, lead researcher at CAU, a key achievement is that this new model not only reduces computational demands substantially but also boosts performance by 5 percent compared to the original version.

He added that the model's architecture had been comprehensively redesigned to strike an optimal balance between being lightweight and delivering high performance.

This latest release builds upon critical groundwork laid by earlier versions. Shennong 1.0 established ...