Chinese smartphone makers are integrating AI agents directly into their operating systems, replacing traditional app stores and home screens. ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra runs ByteDance's Doubao AI agent w…
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference, in its ninth year, concluded on 20 July in Shanghai, featuring an exhibition area exceeding 1 million square feet and over 1,100 companies unveiling more …
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17, Nubia, StepFun, and Honor each unveiled what they called the world's first AI agent smartphone, highlighting a fragmented market…
Chinese tech firms including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor showcased AI agent-powered smartphones at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, pitching them as the future of mobile devices…
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, calling it the world's first agentic AI smartphone. The device, running ByteDance's Doubao AI agent, sold out its initial 30,000 u…
Chinese AI company StepFun has unveiled the StepX Neo, calling it the world's first 'large-model native agentic smartphone' built around AI from the ground up. The device runs on StepFun's native Step…
StepFun, a Shanghai startup backed by Tencent, unveiled the StepX Neo on July 13, calling it the world's first mass-market agentic smartphone that runs on a custom operating system, Step AOS, and feat…
Tencent-backed Chinese startup StepFun on Monday unveiled the StepX Neo, which it claims is the world's first AI-native smartphone, at a launch event in Shanghai. The device runs on Step AOS, an opera…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models on speed and cost through Global API's infrastructure, finding that Qwen3-8B delivers 70 tokens per second at $0.01 per million output tokens—99% cheaper than prem…
A backend engineer's field notes from 2026 reveal a 350× price spread between the cheapest and most expensive AI APIs, with Qwen3-8B at $0.01/M output tokens and DeepSeek V4 Pro at $3.50/M. The engine…
StepFun, a Chinese AI unicorn, is developing its first agentic AI smartphone, signaling a shift in AI competition from data centers to mobile devices. The company, backed by electronics supply chain f…
China will debut the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20, according to Shanghai official Tang Wenkan. Huawei will also showcase its…
Huawei will debut its Atlas 950 SuperPoD computing cluster and the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20. China's AI phone and comput…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models through Global API's unified endpoint, measuring time to first token and tokens per second. Step-3.5-Flash from StepFun topped the speed leaderboard with 80 tokens…
AIWave has launched an API that provides access to over 50 Chinese AI models through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The service supports models from DeepSeek, Zhipu, Qwen, and others, enabling d…
AIWave aggregates 50+ Chinese AI models behind a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint, eliminating the need for multiple API keys, SDKs, and authentication schemes. Developers can switch between mode…
Step 3.7 Flash, released on May 29, 2026, is a structural upgrade to 3.5 Flash with a new vision encoder, runtime escalation, and a compute-control flag. The migration requires two environment variabl…
StepFun and MiniMax released new open-weight AI models over the weekend, with StepFun launching Step 3.7 Flash under a permissive Apache 2.0 license and MiniMax preparing to release the weights for it…
StepFun released Step 3.7 Flash, a 198-billion parameter sparse MoE model, which achieves 76.3% on SWE-Bench Verified, matching 97% of Claude Opus 4.6’s coding performance at one-ninth the cost—$0.19 …
StepFun released Step 3.7 Flash, a 198-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model with native image understanding and improved tool-use reliability for agentic coding and search workfl…