Researchers led by Xu Cao at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology unveiled GEAIR 2.0, a two-armed humanoid robot that pollinates tomato blossoms in under 10…
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences used a machine learning algorithm to analyze data from over two million earthquakes between 1990 and 2024, identifying nearly 175,000 'PKP precursors' an…
Chinese researchers have built the world's first custom plant immunity system, using programmable synthetic immune receptors and AI to enable crops to develop immunity against emerging viruses, bacter…
MiniMax, the generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, is pitching its H3 video model as a generator for animated game sprites, claiming it can maintain consistent character motion across frames wh…
Artificial intelligence is transforming the study of ancient Chinese literature, with ByteDance and Peking University jointly developing Shidian Guji, an online database of more than 70,000 ancient wo…
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI company founded by Yan Junjie, released Music 3 on August 13, 2026, an open-weights model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes from lyrics and a productio…
Two July 2026 papers demonstrate that AI models improve by compressing information rather than accumulating it. The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation released PhiZero, a world model…
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, launched its open-weight H3 video-generation model on July 31 and claims it is the highest-ranked open-weight video model on both Arena and Artificial Analysis. However…
Generative AI patent families nearly tripled from roughly 14,000 in 2023 to over 37,800 by 2025, according to a World Intellectual Property Organization report, with China filing six times more invent…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) unveiled a technical roadmap for integrating artificial intelligence into the Accelerator-Driven Advanced Nuclear Energy System (ADANES) at the 2026 World Artific…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the AoCang S&T Corpus on July 17 at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, drawing on more than 320 petabytes of scientific data, 150 m…
Chinese AI firm Z.ai (Zhipu) shares surged 37% in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 after completing a 1-gigawatt data centre powered entirely by domestic chips, according to sources. The Beij…
A Chinese research team led by the Institute of Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a fabrication method that cuts production time for 3D optical chips from hours to seconds, a…
China's reliance on imported precision scientific instruments is hindering its use of artificial intelligence in research, according to Peking University professor Weinan E. Speaking at an AI for Scie…
Chinese tech experts said at the China Internet Conference that daily AI token consumption in China surged more than 1,000-fold in two years, exceeding 140 trillion tokens in March, giving rise to a '…
A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a Cybersecurity AI Scientist, an autonomous AI agent designed to automate security research, addressing the slow, manual nature of current securi…
Jiangnan Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp., has designed a floating, nuclear-powered offshore facility that functions as a container terminal and ship-recharging station, aiming…
A team from Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Tokyo developed an all-organic, flexible brain-computer interface chip that retained 94% signal efficiency after…
Chinese researchers developed an AI model that improves typhoon rapid intensification forecasts, deployed at Hong Kong Observatory and National Meteorological Centre. The machine learning system addre…
The Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has deployed a machine-learning ensemble model for predicting typhoon rapid intensification at China's National Meteor…