ByteDance's Doubao, its consumer AI assistant, has introduced a 12% service fee for hotel bookings made through its channel on Douyin's local-services platform, effective Aug. 10. The fee comprises an…
Alibaba's Qwen app has introduced paid tiers for its office assistant, with a flagship plan priced at RMB128 per month or RMB1,499 per year, a lower tier at RMB49 per month or RMB568 per year, and an …
Tencent's WorkBuddy has become one of the company's highest-priority AI applications, with increased advertising, computing, and organizational resources, including outdoor ads in Beijing and Shenzhen…
Apple customer service told Chinese media that mainland China has not launched an 'Apple Intelligence with Qwen' feature, after a Chinese-language Mac support guide mentioning the integration disappea…
WeChat is testing AI-assisted writing and AI-generated comments in its Moments feature, linked to its Xiaowei AI assistant, according to TechNode. The features, currently in a limited gray test, inclu…
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, issuing 40.45 million shares, with Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Basic Technology Research receiving a strategic placement of 933,90…
PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A funding round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household r…
Chinese AI company StepFun is reportedly splitting its foundation model and agent-device businesses, moving its phone business into a separate company while the original entity continues model operati…
Nvidia is reportedly seeking a Chinese base-station maker, Shenzhen-based Jiaxian Communications, to combine its AI computing platform with wireless network equipment for 6G systems aimed at overseas …
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,…
Huawei launched the MateBook Pro S, a 798-gram laptop powered by its Kirin XE90 PC processor, with prices starting at RMB7,999. The 14.2-inch flexible OLED laptop offers 3.1K resolution and a 120Hz re…
DeepSeek announced plans to significantly raise prices for its API services, though it has not yet published a new price schedule or effective date. The notice did not specify the new rates, leaving t…
Tencent has integrated its Hy3 large language model into the international edition of WorkBuddy, offering free access until Aug. 31, 2026, Pacific Time. Hy3 has 295 billion total parameters, 21 billio…
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…
Kaiwang Data, a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a strategic funding round of more than RMB100 million, led by Beijing E-Town Industrial Upgrade Fund, Huafang Cap…
DeepSeek V4 Flash ranked first in OpenRouter's weekly model-usage ranking for July 27 to Aug. 2, processing 7.22 trillion tokens on the multi-model aggregation platform. On Aug. 1, the model processed…
TSMC is on track to reach a monthly capacity of nearly 100,000 2nm wafers by the end of this year, driven by strong demand from AI customers such as Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom, according to Taiwan's Ec…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of the Kimi chatbot, has reportedly opened a G-round pre-IPO financing at a $50 billion valuation, with investor interest intensifying after the launch of Kimi K3. A…
Major PC makers HP, Asus, and Acer have begun limited adoption of DRAM chips from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) amid an unprecedented memory chip shortage driven by AI infrastructure dem…