DeepSeek has begun a limited-time beta of V4.1 Flash, an interim multimodal model with a new architecture that offers stronger performance and faster generation at a lower cost, though it is not a for…
Huawei said more than 5 million devices were upgraded to HarmonyOS 7 within 24 hours of its release, with the operating system entering public beta for supported smartphones, tablets, computers, smart…
WeChat Pay has launched a software development kit (SDK) enabling smart-glasses makers to support QR-code payments, with Rokid AI Glasses among the first products to integrate it. Users can initiate a…
ByteDance is developing a real-time spatial video generation model under the direct oversight of founder Zhang Yiming, with a possible launch as early as next month, according to Bloomberg. Built on B…
WeChat is testing a feature called "Xiaowei AI Social" in a limited rollout, allowing a user's Xiaowei assistant to contact a friend's Xiaowei assistant and handle an initial conversation. Possible ta…
Baidu's smart-device business Xiaodu will unveil new hardware at a product event on Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. Beijing time, including smart displays, Tiantian companion screens, smart speakers, and cameras fe…
Alibaba's Qwen team, with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source model for autonomous driving that integrates driving-scene understanding and motion …
Nubia will launch its NaviX Ultra smartphone on Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. Beijing time, featuring ByteDance's Doubao mobile assistant and positioning the device as an AI agent phone. Jointly developed by ZTE…
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center in Inner Mongolia, which would be among the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips, according to people f…
China's first regulation for micro-dramas, the Administrative Measures for the Development of Micro-Dramas, took effect on September 1, requiring AI-generated micro-dramas to carry disclosure labels a…
Audi China and SAIC Group have opened an innovation technology center in Shanghai to develop four new AUDI-brand models for the Chinese market, focusing on electric vehicles, connected-car technologie…
Nubia's NaviX Ultra smartphone, developed with ByteDance's Doubao team, received network access approval in China on September 1 and is scheduled to go on sale this month. The device will include the …
Tencent launched an open platform for WorkBuddy, opening its AI-agent capabilities to third-party developers, hardware makers, and industry applications, with more than 100 software and hardware partn…
Xiaomi unveiled the exterior design of its upcoming Xiaomi 18 Fold, introducing a new 'mid-fold' form factor with a 5.38-inch outer display and a 7.58-inch inner display. The device, scheduled to laun…
Xiaomi has scheduled its autumn flagship product event for 7 p.m. Beijing time on Sept. 7, where it is expected to launch the Xiaomi 18 Fold foldable phone, the Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max tablet and three S…
Mango TV's AIGC drama "The Later Journey to the West" has begun streaming on Mango TV and airing during Hunan TV's prime-time schedule, marking China's first AIGC long-form drama to reach a satellite-…
WeChat Pay's AI AgentPay Card now supports DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw, enabling agents to recommend, order, and pay for services in one conversation. The card covers over 700 Pay Skills on Tencent'…
Qianxing Intelligence has launched Iron Armor Battle Arena, a motion-controlled humanoid boxing robot for entertainment venues, with millisecond-level synchronization and a 40% to 50% replay rate. The…
Baidu Cloud has reorganized its platform product division into an intelligent-agent division, moving its model-as-a-service and Qianfan businesses to a separate infrastructure division, effective Augu…
Baidu has launched DuMateBench, an evaluation leaderboard designed to measure whether AI agents can complete real-world tasks and deliver usable outputs, rather than only generate answers. The benchma…