China AI

AIJetBrains released Mellum2.1, a 12B mixture-of-experts coding model with 2.5B active parameters under Apache 2.0, emphasizing agentic programming.

AIRichard Yu said more Huawei phones will adopt LogicFolding chips built under the Tau Scaling Law, though no models or timetable were given.

AIByteDance's AI development brand TRAE has merged its TraeWork and TraeCode clients into a single product with Agent and IDE modes.

AIByteDance's Doubao Work has added an infinite creation canvas that places source materials, design options and finished output on one page, wired to the new Seedream 5.0 Flash image model.

AIShares of Chinese optical chipmakers fell for a second straight session on Friday amid fears of potential US trade curbs on next-generation optical transceivers for data centres.

AIA suspected 26-year-old in Guangdong reportedly used Claude Code, ARTEX, GLM and DeepSeek in attacks.

AIA LoRA for MiniMax H3 removes a person from video by tracking them with SAM 3.1 and generating the replacement background in overlapping windows. Users supply the original video and a clean version of its first frame.

AIManus parent Butterfly Effect announced funding of over $500M led by Boyu Capital and IDG, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund returning, its first disclosed raise since resuming independent operations.

AIA Seed team preprint reports "phase sensitivity" in DeepSeek V4 and V4.1-Flash, where identical information becomes harder to retrieve depending on its position within compressed KV-cache blocks.

AIDoubao Work has added a Canvas feature for complex creative tasks, placing materials, design plans and outputs on one infinite canvas where users can keep editing text, colors and layout after images are generated.

AIGeekPark reports that Krinwave, a Shenzhen company, has completed a new 400 million yuan round with XVC and Sequoia China as new investors.

AIToday AI, built by Teambition founder Qi Junyuan, launched its China version on September 24 and connects to Feishu, DingTalk, Tencent Docs and email.

AIStar Motion Era's VPP2, a world action model, ranked first on the RoboDojo simulation leaderboard with a 32.26% average success rate and 39.26 average score.

AIA post mocks corporate PR language, arguing that a series of phrases about exceeding national standards, extreme-condition testing, and free upgrades for delivered customers really amounts to a recall.

AIIn a podcast, former ByteDance engineer Guo Yu says that in 2015 he first saw a company whose products were driven by neural networks that even engineers could not fully explain.

AIopenJiuwen, an open-source AI Agent platform built by Huawei teams with universities and enterprises, released and open-sourced an enterprise-grade AgentOS. It integrates multi-agent collaboration, self-evolution, compute affinity, multi-tenant isolation and security sandboxing, and a plugin architecture with the Agentic Hub ecosystem.

AIXPENG has named its robotaxi business XPENG YOYO and launched a ride-hailing mini program that lets invited members of the public test the service.

AIKling AI will host a panel at LA Tech Week 2026 on October 14, 2026, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM in Santa Monica, with speakers from Kling AI, Oxen AI, and Obsidian Studio.

AIQwen3.8-Max, Qwen3.8-Flash, and Wan3.0 are available free for a week on GMI Cloud, which is extending the offer by seven days and raising rate limits across all three models.

AIByteDance Seed researchers found that language models compressing their KV cache in fixed-size chunks retrieve the same information unevenly depending on token position.

AIHuawei's OceanStor M900 and Nvidia's CMX move reusable inference KV cache into a shared storage tier, but no agreed SSD specification exists for it.

AIHuawei has opened its DevEco Studio for HarmonyOS PCs to public beta, alongside first public betas of the AI tool DevEco Code and the agent toolkit DevEco CLI. The beta requires HarmonyOS 7.0.0.107 or later, at least 16 GB of memory and 100 GB of storage, and runs on several MateBook models and the MatePad Edge.

AITencent Hunyuan, with Fudan and Tsinghua researchers, released ExplorationBench, a benchmark testing how AI systems explore through verifiable "Alien Worlds" with executable rules that conflict with familiar knowledge.

AIDonghua University researchers spun transistors, resistors and capacitors into a continuous fiber that functions as a circuit, using microfluidic encoded spinning, according to a Nature Electronics paper.

AIA Chinese-led team published in Cell a three-dimensional spatiotemporal cell atlas covering rice from germinating seed to grain fill, along with a public portal and the RICE scGPT single-cell foundation model.

AIShanghai AI Lab has open-sourced Intern-Decision, a family of 0.8B, 2B and 4B parameter models that return structured decisions with probabilities instead of free text.

AITencent introduced roughly eight vertical AI agent products between July and September, each built on an existing business such as games, music, WeChat or video conferencing.

AIByteDance's Doubao app is now available as a native client on Huawei HarmonyOS PCs, shipping with Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro and Doubao-Seed-2.1 Turbo.

AIThe Chinese Academy of Sciences Hong Kong Innovation Research Institute's CAIR centre launched CARES 4.0, a multimodal clinical agent system built on a Harness agent framework, at the 4th Hong Kong clinical robotics and embodied AI symposium.

AIHuawei launched the OceanStor M900 and Nvidia introduced CMX Context Memory Storage to manage inference KV Cache in tiered storage, reducing repeated computation on cache hits.

AINaive AI, founded seven months ago, has raised $400 million across three rounds at a $1.42 billion post-money valuation.

AIZhang Lei, then a recent PhD graduate working mainly on image retrieval, beat a team led by face recognition expert Li Ziqing in a 2002 Microsoft Research Asia contest to build a face detection system.

AIBASAL Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua AIR's first PhD graduate Li Jianxiong, has secured lead funding from Five Source Capital, with Ivy Capital, Linear Capital and WestSummit Capital participating.

AIQi An Xin ranked first in China's network information security market with 4.39 billion yuan in revenue in 2025, according to a CCID Consulting report on a 93.08 billion yuan market.

AIAt the Apsara Conference, Alibaba's Qwen team outlined a roadmap of Qwen4 followed by Qwen4.5 and Qwen5, aiming for 5T to 10T parameters.

AIChina's Xiongan New Area is accelerating efforts to attract technology firms, officials and sources said, aiming to nurture local industries alongside state institutions relocated from Beijing.

AIThe S&P 500 closed above 7,800 for the first time, marking its first record close in nearly two months, while the Nasdaq Composite also hit a fresh all-time closing high.

AIAustralia's privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into Shenzhen Qingcheng, the China-based software company behind the HeyCyan app in Kmart's $89 Anko-branded smartglasses, after it failed to respond to inquiries.

AIManus, an AI agent startup, raised more than $500 million in a funding round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with follow-on investment from Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund.

AIManus' parent company Butterfly Effect said it raised more than $500 million, its first funding round since Meta called off its $2 billion acquisition.