China's embodied AI companies raised about Rmb 43.8bn ($6.4bn) in 2026 through June 12, according to a media tally by QbitAI, but the sector's spending record is mostly rumor, with only three mandator…
MemTensor, a Shanghai AI developer founded by former Alibaba data executive Xiong Feiyu, released the Metis family of models (4B, 9B, and 27B) that maintain memory inside the model backbone instead of…
Mi Liangchuan, head of Xpeng's robotics business, has departed as the company pushes its Iron humanoid robot toward an end-2026 mass-production target, following the earlier exit of product lead Shi X…
Anthropic automated 95% of internal business-analytics queries using Claude, achieving 95% accuracy after adding a semantic layer and validation controls, according to a blog post on claude.com. The s…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly required prospective investors to agree not to poach its staff or encourage them to start rival companies, a condition raised during a virtual meeting in May, accord…