China's daily AI token call volume exceeded 500 trillion as of June 2026, according to industry reports, as large-model applications expand across sectors. Model update cycles have shortened from roug…
Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker ENGINEAI has pushed the unit cost of a general-purpose humanoid robot below RMB100,000 (about $14,000), a tenfold drop from over RMB1 million three years ago, accor…
China had built and put into operation more than 70 embodied-AI training grounds by the end of June, according to a 2026 report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, wit…
ByteDance's Seed foundation-model division has restructured into four new departments—Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work, and Product Posttrain-Chat—to focus on business applications an…
Unitree claims its new humanoid robot, Superman, can jump 2 meters from a standing position and sprint at 12.66 meters per second, a speed that would outpace Usain Bolt's peak velocity of 12.42 meters…
DJI launched the Osmo 360 II, an 8K 360-degree camera, in China with a starting price of RMB3,299. The camera features a 1-inch panoramic imaging sensor, 14.5 stops of dynamic range, native 8K/60fps v…
DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API starting Aug. 17, with off-peak rates set at half of peak rates. Peak hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beijing time. For deep…
Chinese manufacturers captured over 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, with total shipments reaching approximately 19,100 units, up from about 5,100 units a year earlier…
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told the company's Seed AI research team last month that it will not rely on AI distillation to improve its models, even if that means temporarily falling behind rivals,…
Xiaomi open-sourced its embodied-AI foundation model Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on Aug. 5, covering the full process from real-robot post-training to model deployment and including benchmark evaluation code. T…
DeepSeek has reportedly reopened talks for a second funding round targeting RMB50 billion, potentially valuing the Chinese AI company at about RMB500 billion before the financing, with an agreement po…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term r…
China’s daily AI token calls reached 140 trillion by March 2026, up more than 1,000-fold from roughly 100 billion in early 2024, according to China Academy of Information and Communications Technology…
China’s AI-native apps reached 499 million monthly active users by May 2026, up 85.4% year-over-year, according to QuestMobile’s 2026 first-half report released July 14. Doubao led with 382 million us…
China's electric vehicle exports surged 68.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, according to customs data released July 14. Exports of AI-integrated intelligent bionic robots exceeded 10,000 uni…