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…
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…