Xiaomi on Wednesday unveiled Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38-billion-parameter multimodal autoregressive foundation model for embodied AI that unifies four core capabilities within a single framework, includ…
Apple is partnering with Baidu to power AI search for its Apple Intelligence suite in China, with Baidu developing an AI-powered search experience that enhances Siri and enables image and text underst…
Alibaba's Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence, bringing AI-powered text and image understanding and content generation to users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. T…
TSMC will raise foundry prices for mature process nodes starting January 2027, according to multiple Taiwanese media reports citing price hike notices received by chip design companies. The adjustment…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth has surged to $36 billion, more than double his previous estimate of $16.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The increase makes Liang t…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI model developer, is preparing for a mainland IPO and may file its listing application as soon as this year, targeting a 2027 debut, according to Bloomberg. The company …
China’s AI-native apps reached 499 million monthly active users by May 2026, up 85.4% year-over-year, according to QuestMobile’s 2026 first-half report released July 14. Doubao led with 382 million us…
China's electric vehicle exports surged 68.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, according to customs data released July 14. Exports of AI-integrated intelligent bionic robots exceeded 10,000 uni…
Shanghai-based Marvel-Tech, a developer of gas turbines and industrial waste-heat recovery systems, has raised more than RMB500 million across two financing rounds, with the C round led by HongShan an…
ByteDance has denied reports that it plans to enter the autonomous driving sector, stating it has no plans to develop a smart driving business. The company said it is conducting early-stage research i…
Chinese gaming firm miHoYo launched Early Access for its AI companion app BSide: Olivia Lin on Steam on Monday, positioning the free-to-play utility as a move beyond gaming into AI-powered digital com…
The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet c…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other agencies issued guidelines on July 13 targeting systematic breakthroughs in next-generation internet infrastructure by 2030 and …
Ant Group's AI Safety Lab open-sourced SingGuard-NSFA, a safety guardrail model for autonomous agents, and disclosed details of its multimodal safety model SingGuard. The model detects risks including…
Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie announced a 'Touch High' plan in an internal letter, prioritizing AGI research over short-term commercialization, with four technical focuses: long-horizon tasks, autonomous …
ByteDance is exploring autonomous driving technology for unmanned logistics through the world model team under its AI research unit Seed, according to Chinese media reports, with the early-stage proje…
Insta360 unveiled its vision for an AI-powered Cameraman photography robot on its 11th anniversary, describing it as an AI agent concept for autonomous filming with panoramic drones as early prototype…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has begun developing its own AI chips focused on inference workloads to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and cut costs, sources told Reuters. The project is in early stages and ha…
Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy3, a new reasoning model with 295 billion total parameters and 256K token context window, integrating it into products like WorkBuddy, Yuanbao, Marvis, and ima. The model is…
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will shut down their AI agent creation features on July 15, 2026, coinciding with the implementation of China's new AI regulations. Existing user-created agents w…