AgiBot, a Chinese humanoid robotics company, is repositioning itself as an AI company, releasing the GO-2 embodied foundation model in April 2026 and Genie Sim 3.0, which provides over 10,000 hours of…
Z.ai, the international brand of Chinese AI company Zhipu, launched GLM-5.3, an update focused on coding, long-horizon tasks, and cybersecurity, claiming a 50% higher score than GLM-5.2 on its interna…
Volkswagen Group China announced that its full-scenario advanced driver-assistance system will begin rolling out in the third quarter of 2026, appearing on seven new electrified models across its thre…
Apple has reportedly trained a large language model specifically for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba, according to people familiar with the effort. The model would complement Apple's earl…
DeepSeek has opened a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an open-source agent harness positioned against Anthropic's Claude Cowork, providing a web interface for running AI agents with a plu…
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…
Honor launched its Robot Phone, a smartphone with a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and system-level AI agent architecture, priced at 9,999 yuan for the 12GB+512GB version and 12,999 yuan for t…
Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents that creates tasks based on real business scenarios and provides developers with models, runtime environments, a…
DeepSeek's API documentation now lists the deepseek-v4-pro model, identified as DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, which supports the Responses API and tool calls with a 1 million token context length and 384,000 …
Tencent's WeChat AI team detailed a new scaling approach for its WeLM model family, training WeLM-HD4-80B and WeLM-HD4-617B models using Hidden Decoding, which expands each token into multiple interna…
Insta360 founder and CEO JK Liu said the company is developing two mirrorless cameras with different designs, one of which will use a form consumers may not have seen before. The company is exploring …
Honor will launch its Robot Phone in China on Aug. 12, a device combining a smartphone with a motorized gimbal camera and AI-assisted subject tracking. The company also highlighted an imaging collabor…
Alibaba Cloud has launched its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 AI supernode instance in China, with Ulanqab as the first deployment region. The instance supports inference for mixture-of-experts models with up to…
DeepSeek is recruiting for an IDC data-center team in Beijing, Hangzhou and Ulanqab, with roles covering data-center planning, construction, testing and operations, signaling an expansion beyond model…
ByteDance has formed a new top-level AI data and safety department, led by former TikTok executive Wang Yinglei, according to a report from IT Home. The unit, which grew out of a global data team esta…
Zhipu's MaaS open platform has nearly 7 million registered API users, about 2 million more than in early July, and has activated more than 50,000 domestically developed AI chips to meet rising inferen…
Alibaba Cloud has reduced the delivery time for large-scale AI data center facilities to 100 days using a fully modular design architecture, compared with six to 12 months for traditional data centers…
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group, plans to more than double its global modular data center capacity in 2026 to meet growing demand for AI computing infrastructure. The company s…
Li Auto expects the second generation of its Livis AI glasses to arrive in the second half of 2027, with the company evaluating lens-based display technologies with Zeiss and developing native compati…