China AI

AIYibang Dongli will host the 2026 Eighth Yibang Industrial Internet Conference and the first Industrial Agent Conference on November 20 at the Beijing Guomao Hotel, under the theme "Modal Evolution Driven by AI and Going Global." The events will cover industrial agent deployment, AI supply chain value, data elements and token economy, and overseas expansion, and will release the 2026 Yibang Industrial Internet Development Report and the Qianfeng Award "Modal Evolution" case collection.

AIShenzhen Shita Robotics completed an angel round on October 13, with Huawei's Hubble Investment among the investors.

AIAround 20 Chinese car brands exhibited at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, double the 2024 number and about one third of the 60 vehicle brands present, according to Reuters.

AIHailuo AI, owned by MiniMax, says open-source AI now lets people make comic characters move, as the post describes childhood comic imagination coming true.

AIOpenBMB says it is pleased by community interest in local multimodal AI that runs from phones to edge devices.

AIIluvatar CoreX unveiled the Tiangai 300 IXL144, a supernode that packs 144 GPUs and 18 CPUs into a single cabinet with about 10.1 terabytes of memory, at the 2026 China International Industry Fair in Shanghai.

AIXiaomi MiMo says MiMo-V2.6-Pro leads open-weight models on FrontierCode 1.1 with a 45% score. Artificial Analysis is launching a leaderboard for the private benchmark, which grades coding attempts that fail any blocking check as zero.

AIZ.ai releases GLM-Legal, a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash, which scores 19.17% on Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark, up from 6.67% for its base model, according to Vals AI's runs.

AIByteDance Seed announced in an internal email that it is forming a "Seed Model-Alignment&Preparedness" department led by Yan Lin, reporting to Seed head Wu Yonghui.

AIXGRIDS says its 3D Gaussian model of Fujian-Ningxia Town covers 23.5 square kilometers and contains 6.2 billion Gaussian ellipsoids, trained from 186,000 aerial and ground images and 15 billion LiDAR points.

AIChery says it is recalling OMODA 5 vehicles in Malaysia after a 2023 model's rear axle separated in Johor, citing weak welds on a batch and a discontinued structure version.

AIDJI took 78.7% of China's online handheld smart camera sales during the 2026 Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday travel season (weeks 38–40), according to RUNTO. Total sales reached 345,000 units worth 1.01 billion yuan across JD, Tmall and Douyin.

AIAt a Shanghai media briefing, Huawei's Xu Songyu published the first detailed architecture diagram of the Kirin 9050 Pro and said its Maleoon GPU delivers 40% higher performance than its predecessor.

Why it matters: The briefing gives the first full Kirin 9050 Pro architecture, a stated shipment total, and candid notes on the unproven LogicFolding path, useful context for chip roadmaps.

AIDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has held talks with several embodied AI founders and is considering whether the company should move further into the field, according to Phoenix Tech.

AIAlibaba is preparing to launch Qwen Go!, a personal agent in its Qwen app that carries out tasks such as filing flight-delay compensation claims and requesting Taobao price-protection refunds.

AI1688 says its buyers and source manufacturers can now open Accio, Alibaba's AI workbench for e-commerce, with existing 1688 accounts.

AIIndependent developers released a Windows beta of WeChatBridge, an open-source tool on GitHub that forwards WeChat chat records to AI agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Doubao and Qwen, or saves them to Obsidian.

AIAnthropic says experiments show small AI models could soon self-replicate on commercial IoT devices such as smart ovens and cheap Android TV boxes.

AIOpenBMB says MiniCPM-V 4.7 in its 1B and 35B-A3B sizes now supports fully on-device inference on Mac through Nativ, with Day 0 support.

AIAlibaba's Qwen has opened trial applications for Qwen Go!, a Personal Agent built into the Qwen app, according to Qwen's official WeChat account.

AIOpenBMB's MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B used fewer tokens than Qwen 3.6 35B-A3 and produced a better voxel pagoda, according to a post by Atomic Chat.

AIEponch AI research says China is 2.7 times as exposed to chip shortages as the US, because semiconductors make up 2.7 times as large a share of its consumption.

AIAlibaba's Qwen personal agent "Qianwen Go!" is about to launch, according to a report dated October 13.

AIAlibaba's 1688 says from October 13 its more than 100 million annual active buyers and over 1 million source manufacturers can directly activate Accio, its global e-commerce AI workbench.

AIOpenBMB says MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B is being tested in real agent workflows, where tool use, long context handling and agent loops test efficient models.

AIChina's National Railway Administration issued a 2026-2030 railway science and technology plan on October 12 that sets research priorities for 400 km/h service and the CR450 train family.

AIZhipu's unannounced GLM-5.3-Highspeed has begun appearing in ZCode for randomly selected subscribers in a gray release, according to QbitAI. A user's screenshot showed generation at roughly 490 tokens per second, a figure that Zhipu has not confirmed, compared with about 200 tokens per second for GLM-5.3-FlashX.

AISkyworth Group is incubating a wearable exoskeleton to ease lower-limb load when older people walk, stand up or climb stairs, according to Leiphone as cited by IT Home.

AIAsian technology stocks fell Tuesday as a sell-off in U.S. semiconductor shares spread to the region.

AIReplaySSM, a method for decoding state space models, is now in production in GLM-5.3-Flash and Kimi-K3 and ships in TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, FlashInfer, and SGLang.

AIMainland Chinese investors bought a net HK$60.8 billion (US$7.7 billion) of Hong Kong stocks via Stock Connect in September, up from HK$10.4 billion in August, according to Wind.

AIDeveloper Maurice Heumann says his team used over 500 billion tokens and three months of AI agent work to decompile the 2009 game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 into C++. The team checked each rebuilt function by compiling it and comparing its bytes against the original, reaching 99% function coverage and 83% exact matches.

AIDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is considering entering embodied AI, either by building a team in-house or through investments, according to people familiar with the matter.

AIChina Mobile has tripled the processing capacity of its largest intelligent computing hub in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, to 20,100 petaflops, up from 6,700 petaflops, according to Inner Mongolia Daily.

AIJerry Liu shares a post saying Tencent has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory, a memory system for AI agents that runs locally on SQLite without external vector databases or cloud APIs.

AIThe 2026 International Embodied AI Skills Competition will be held in Shanghai on October 23, according to the source. The event is described as a live-robot training and practical showcase platform for embodied intelligence.

AIAnthropic says its new defenses have cut the reasoning tokens distillers can extract from Claude by a factor of 10 to 100 on its own platform.

Why it matters: The post names specific distillation methods and their measured effects on reasoning extraction, which helps readers judge how AI labs protect models from copying.

AIDesign Arena says Mistral Large 4 is the top non-Chinese open-weights model across its Website, Data Visualization, UI Components, 3D Design, SVG, ASCII Art, and Game Dev arenas.

AISakana AI (@SakanaAILabs) posts a YouTube video titled AI, which translates to "The direction of the US-China AI race." The post gives no further details on the video's content or speakers.

AIAlibaba's Qwen team introduced QwenGyre, an online reinforcement learning framework that trains coding agents through unmodified black-box harnesses on runs of hours and about 700K tokens.