China AI

AITogether AI announces Gloss, a free, open source demo app built by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Together AI. Gloss saves articles, PDFs, and X bookmarks, and lets users highlight text to get instant AI answers.

AIinclusionAI, Ant Group's team, releases Ling-3.1-flash, a hybrid reasoning model with 560B total and 25B active parameters and a 1M-token context window.

AIEthan Mollick says the first clear sighting of a rogue agent fleet from China running open-weights models has been reported.

AIBlack Forest Labs says its FLUX 3 Video produces 4K quality that outperforms Kling o3, at comparable pricing and latency. The post links to the model page and a pricing page for FLUX 3 Video.

AIMiniMax releases Design Agent V3, which it says cuts creation costs by more than 30%.

AIMiniMax says it has released a new version of its design platform at design.minimax.io. The post gives no details on features, capabilities, or pricing.

AIFormer US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo warned at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi that unplanned AI development could disrupt the US economy much as the China shock did.

AIOpenBMB says PilotDeck 2.0 is an open-source, model-agnostic agent harness that creates, edits, and verifies Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Why it matters: The post gives concrete 2.0 changes and a benchmark comparison with WorkBuddy and Claude Code, which helps readers judge whether the harness fits their office workflows.

AIIndian startup Scimplify raised $25 million in an all-equity round led by Hitachi Ventures, with Henkel and Teknor Apex joining as new investors.

AIAnthropic has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth in the Asia-Pacific region, and signed an MOU with the Singapore government on AI safety and responsible adoption.

AIThe 2026 Global Developer Pioneer Conference and International Embodied AI Skills Competition will run October 23 to 25 in Shanghai's Pudong district.

AICounterpoint Research says Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC) will grow revenue six times faster than its industry peers this year as it expands into server-related business.

AIChina's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen and Tongyi Wanxiang alongside Apple Intelligence for the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and several earlier Apple models.

AISemiAnalysis hosts Kimbo, Wenyao and Jordan discuss a claim that GLM 5.3 writes faster kernels than humans given enough budget.

AIAnt Lingbo, the embodied AI unit of Ant Group, has signed strategic cooperation agreements with Longsheng Weirui, Demar Technology and Deer Robot.

AIAccording to 36Kr, DeepSeek is set to lead a seed round of tens of millions of dollars in robotics AI startup Winverse AI, valuing it at about $400 million post-money.

AILuma Ray offers keyframe control across up to 16 keyframes for frame-by-frame direction, according to a guide comparing 10 image-to-video AI generators.

AIAIsphere opened its Hong Kong office at Hong Kong Cyberport on October 13, 2026, and announced the "Digital Intelligence Hong Kong · AIsphere AI Industry Co-creation Program" to invite local partners.

AIBaidu announces that Baidu World 2026 will take place in Beijing on November 12. The conference will explore how organizations can redesign processes, drive innovation, and deliver AI solutions at scale.

AIinclusionAI releases Ming-3.0-asr-tiny, a speech recognition model that transcribes single-turn Chinese and English speech and covers regional dialects.

AIDoubao Work has added a data import and sync feature that lets users bring stored preferences, skills, connectors, memory, projects, and conversation history from ChatGPT, Claude Code, and TraeWork.

AIQwen Office has released Qwen Office E-commerce Edition, an AI productivity tool for e-commerce merchants, and opened it to invite-only beta testing.

AIStepFun has launched the STEPX Neo, its first agent-native phone, priced at 3999 yuan and bundled with a 12-month Token Plan of 10 billion tokens per month.

AIChina's integrated circuit exports rose 136% year on year to $45 billion in September, according to customs data released Wednesday.

AITencent's enterprise messaging platform WeCom and its AI agent WorkBuddy released new versions that connect the two products in both directions.

AISTEPX, the AI terminal brand of Step, released the STEPX Neo agent phone on October 13, 2026, running the Step AOS 1.0 agent-native operating system and the Amoo personal agent.

AIByteDance's Doubao phone assistant says its 30-day notice period for the Screen Automation Execution Protocol has ended, and it will gradually open screen automation to third-party apps that have not declared a refusal.

Why it matters: The source ties a product rule to a named opt-out list and the app ecosystems affected, showing how agent access to apps is being negotiated in China.

AIGMI Cloud announces three winners of the HY Image Challenge, selected together with the Tencent Hunyuan team from many creative submissions.

AIArtificial Analysis added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to its AA-AgentPerf benchmark, which replays agentic coding sessions and measures throughput per megawatt.

Why it matters: The post gives per-GPU throughput and per-user speed figures for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash across NVIDIA and AMD hardware, useful for comparing serving costs.

AITencent's WeChat Work pairs with WorkBuddy, DingTalk with Qwen Office, and Feishu with Doubao, according to meng shao.

AIOpenBMB and ModelBest open-sourced MiniCPM-V 4.7, which includes a 35B-A3B MoE version and a 1B version.

Why it matters: The article explains how the model's MoE design and expert prefetching allow a 35B model to run on about 3GB of memory, which matters for on-device deployment.

AIShanghai's Planning and Natural Resources Bureau released its first batch of government agents for the Quantum City project, built on the upgraded Yunyu Xingkong large model developed by SenseTime's Large Device team.

AIPHANES AI and Tianlong Mobile released SeePhys Hub on October 14, a wearable system that combines a four-camera headset, wrist bands, waist and leg motion trackers, and tactile gloves to record human full-body motion and hand contact pressure.

AITencent's WorkBuddy Enterprise added an Observability Center to its admin console on October 13, now in public beta.

AIHuawei confirmed at its 2026 Kirin media briefing that HiSilicon designed the 50-megapixel 1-inch RYYB sensor in the XMAGE Z10 camera module, which launched October 1 with the Mate 90 series.

AITsinghua University's Data Science and Intelligence Lab released SRHarness, an open-source runtime for agentic symbolic regression, and MechBench, a benchmark for recovering the mechanisms behind formulas.

AISGLang says Qwen3.8 Flash Next on NVIDIA Vera Rubin, running with NVIDIA Dynamo and SGLang, delivers up to 6.6× throughput per chip versus GB300.

AISGLang (@sgl_project) shares a link to an InferenceX comparison of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on GB300 and VR200 hardware. The linked page compares per-GPU throughput under agentic-trace workloads at FP4 precision.

AIQwen congratulates lightseekorg on TokenSpeed results showing Qwen3.8-Flash-Next reaching 685 output tokens/s per user.

AIOpenBMB thanks @fahdmirza for a tutorial and review of MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B, a one-billion-parameter vision model.