Xiaomi chief designer Li Tianyuan said at the Future AI Mobility Summit that the company's cars are becoming AI-powered partners that understand drivers, completing a 'human-car-home' ecosystem. The Y…
X Square Robot Technology Co. closed four consecutive financing rounds, including a Series C, bringing its valuation to over $2.8 billion. The Shenzhen-based embodied AI and foundation model developer…
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…
A developer tracked OpenRouter's daily usage rankings for a month to see which AI models developers actually use in production. The top five models by token volume were all from Chinese labs or open-w…
Google is allowing Android users to switch back from Gemini to Google Assistant due to widespread complaints about the AI assistant's performance, especially with smart home controls and basic tasks. …
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly adopting low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, which offer comparable performance at a fraction of the price of American rivals. Despite political scr…
The Wireless Power Consortium is developing a 50W wireless charging standard based on Qi2 technology, led by Xiaomi, with potential adoption by Google Pixel and iPhone models as early as 2028.…
AI coding platforms are shifting from unlimited plans to token-, credit-, and quota-based subscriptions. Five plans—MiniMax Token Plan, MiMo Token Plan, GLM Coding Plan, and others—offer developers fl…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3 billion of memory chips, according to sources, in a deal that would bind one of China's largest cloud operators to its …
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'.…
Apple shares fell 5% on Tuesday, wiping out $215 billion in market capitalization, after CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that rising memory chip costs driven by AI demand will force price increases across A…
DeepSeek V4's pricing is nearly 50x cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models, raising concerns that the US companies may rely on fearmongering and government bans on open-weight models to m…
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targ…
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…
Tencent is conducting limited internal tests of an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to send messages, make voice calls, and navigate mini-programs via text and voice commands.…
Xiaomi's MiMo AI team released MiMo Code V0.1.0 on June 10, 2026, an open-source coding agent claiming 82% on SWE-bench Verified versus Claude Code's 79%, though the scores are self-reported and not o…
Modal and Z Lab released DFlash, a speculative decoding model for Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B, achieving over 4.3x throughput versus baseline and 1.5x versus MTP on HumanEval at concurrency 1. The model uses a…
Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI mod…
Chinese AI developers are accelerating development of trillion-parameter foundation models to narrow the gap with US rivals, as Washington imposes export controls on leading US AI software. DeepSeek l…
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…