Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic model yet, capable of autonomous planning and tool use at near-Opus performance with lower pricing. xAI launched a no-code Voice Agent Builder for …
Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts agentic coding model with a 1-million-token context window, designed to autonomously handle complex software engineeri…
Meituan trained its 1.6 trillion parameter LongCat-2.0 AI model entirely on Chinese chips, demonstrating China's ability to develop large-scale AI without Nvidia hardware.…
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance…
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestically developed chips, claiming it as the first of its scale to achieve end-to-end training on Chinese silico…
Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter large language model with a 1-million-token context window, trained from scratch on a 50,000-chip domestic compute cluster. The …
A developer discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code client contains a covert channel that exfiltrates user environment data via steganographic character variations in the system prompt. The embedded J…
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 48 billion active parameters per token, available via API for agentic coding and tool use. The model features a 1 m…
Meituan's LongCat team released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model trained entirely on domestic AI ASICs, claiming it as China's largest model trained on home-grown hard…
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestic chips, claiming it as the country's first trillion-parameter model built on hom…
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Meituan introduced U-Mind, a unified framework for real-time multimodal interaction that enables a large language model to reason across text, speech, and moti…
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, raised $7.4 billion in the largest first-time funding round by a Chinese startup, driven by US export restrictions and competition with Anthropic's Mythos model. China now …
Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview, a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese domestic chips without NVIDIA hardware, has become the most-used model on OpenRouter under the alias Owl Al…
Chinese tech workers fear being 'optimised' out of jobs as companies like Meituan, Baidu, and Xiaomi cut roles amid AI adoption, with layoffs often euphemized as 'organizational restructuring'.…
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index briefly slipped below 23,000 for the first time in a year, led by a 4.2% drop in Alibaba after Anthropic accused it of illicitly extracting AI capabilities. The decline ref…
Tencent has begun testing an AI assistant named Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to perform tasks via text or voice commands. The company plans a public rollout in Q3, aiming to turn the super ap…
Liontrust Global Technology Fund has nearly doubled its China exposure from 6% to 11%, rotating profits from US tech giants like Nvidia and Apple into Chinese internet companies such as Tencent, Meitu…
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on OpenAI models via Azure, even as U.S. regulators tighten rules on Chinese AI access. Microsoft's AI revenue in China …
Microsoft has sold OpenAI models to major Chinese technology companies including ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent Holdings, with ByteDance on track to spend over $1 billion annually on Micro…
Microsoft has built a significant business selling OpenAI models to Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent, despite U.S.-China tensions over AI. ByteDance alone is on…