China AI

AIThe 2026 AI Cloud 100 China list was unveiled at a summit in Shanghai on October 16, co-hosted by Jingya Capital and Shibei Hi-Tech Zone. Yimu Technology was selected as the representative of the Physical AI track.

AIYuanjie Semiconductor Technology expects third-quarter net profit of 403 million to 453 million yuan, up 579% to 660% from a year earlier, as data-centre demand drives shipments.

AIExperts at a Rest of World event in San Francisco said new open-weight models from American and European companies still trail dominant Chinese systems on performance.

AISupcon Technology signed a strategic partnership with Alibaba's Qwen Work, an enterprise general-purpose agent product, to deploy agents across its marketing chain from lead collection to payment settlement.

AIAlexander Doria says interpretability analyses of modern models overlook data shape as a likely cause of superposition.

AITencent Hunyuan says Hy Memory 2.0 is out, with an open-source model, framework, and MemHub.

Why it matters: The post names Hy Memory 2.0's open-source model, SDK, and MemHub sync tool, showing how an agent memory system would be adopted and tested across AI tools.

AIKling AI has released Kling 4.0, which generates native video up to 30 seconds long in a single generation.

AITencent Hunyuan releases Hy-Memory-30B-A3B, a compact writer model with about 3B active parameters that decides what to retain in external memory frameworks such as Mem0, MemOS, and Hy-Memory.

Why it matters: The model card lays out a two-stage training method and cross-harness benchmark results, making it useful for comparing memory writers against general-purpose LLMs.

AIKling AI says Kling 4.0 is officially released, positioning it as a tool for turning inspiration into new visual worlds.

AIKuaishou's Kling AI says Kling 4.0 is now fully available on klingai.com, with native clips up to 30 seconds and audio included. The company says 4K and 1080p 10-bit HDR output and an enterprise API are coming soon.

Why it matters: The article separates features new to the public rollout from those already previewed in September, showing which capabilities are available now and which remain pending.

AIAgiBot is rolling out its YuanSheng ecosystem program to more than 20 Chinese universities, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, and plans to place over 1,000 robots on campus.

AI4Paradigm and RiseUnion have open-sourced ModelSphere under Apache 2.0, a platform that manages compute, model serving and runtime tuning above engines like vLLM and SGLang.

AITencent's Toast app now lets Pro users import external Android APK files and H5 source code, then edit them in Toast before filing for copyright and submitting to MyApp.

AIKling AI posts a short message with the hashtags #Kling4 and #KlingAI, with no details on features or availability. A background post from @koldo2k says Kling 4.0 is out, but the Kling AI post itself gives no specifics.

AIPromptArmor Threat Intelligence reports that open-weight models, including DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, and Qwen, were 88% more susceptible to real-world indirect prompt injection cyber attack chains than proprietary models across 9,800 trials.

AIKling AI's post says "Every idea deserves its shot" alongside the #Kling4 and #KlingAI tags, announcing Kling 4.0 and Kling 4.0 Flash.

AIKling AI posts a teaser asking "Flying cars when?" with the hashtags #Kling4 and #KlingAI. The post includes no details about a product, release date, or capability.

AIArthur Mensch argues Europe should not leave frontier AI models to the United States and China, calling that idea a fundamental mistake.

AINathan Chen Guangyu, a 17-year-old AI researcher, announced on social media that he has left Moonshot AI after less than a year and is heading to the United States.

AIKling AI posted a claymation-style video made with its Kling 4 model. Higgsfield AI called the claymation output "scary good" and "unreal."

AIKling AI posts a one-shot video of a character flying, tagged #Kling4, with no further details on capabilities or availability.

AIOpenCode says GLM 5.3 Flash is now available for free in its platform. The post gives no pricing details, usage limits, or further specifications.

AIPrismML releases the Ternary Bonsai 2 series in 2B, 4B and 9B sizes, built on Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 base and using ternary weights of -1, 0 and +1, with storage of about 0.43GB, 0.95GB and 2GB. The company says the models cut tokens by about 40% on standard instruction and daily math tasks for the 9B model, and reaches up to 5x throughput and 3x energy efficiency versus full-precision counterparts on hardware such as the RTX 4090 and M5 Pro.

AIKling AI Blog explains 10 common video transitions, including straight cuts, jump cuts, match cuts, fades, cross dissolves, wipes, whip pans, zoom transitions, occlusion transitions, and J and L cuts.

AIKling AI's blog offers ten video editing tips covering story structure, shot selection, jump cuts, sound, and platform formats.

AIMeituan released its fourth annual Polaris medical aesthetics rankings in Hangzhou on October 14, listing 181 institutions across 42 cities and 269 doctors from 36 cities, including 74 institutions and 156 doctors appearing for the first time.

AIBaidu's autonomous vehicles will carry more than 1,000 Hongkongers in a city-first public trial, according to the South China Morning Post. The post shares a link to the article without further details on routes, duration, or operators.

AIKling AI's free plan offers signup credits and monthly login credits, and its IMAGE 3.0 model supports text prompts and up to 10 reference images.

AIKling AI's Kling 4.0 uses text prompts and reference images or videos to change existing footage, including replacing a product, revising a character, or changing a setting.

AIStepFun has released open weights for Step 5 Preview, a sparse MoE model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token.

AIAlibaba's Qianwen Office e-commerce edition has over 20% of its paying users from e-commerce, according to CEO Chen Yusen at the October 14 launch.

AIDasha Da, a Chinese drone swarm company, says equipment sales make up about 70% of its revenue while its drone shows gain wide exposure.

AIBMW says the new-generation BMW iX3 will carry a China-specific cockpit AI built with Alibaba on Alibaba's Qwen large model, with Zebra handling cockpit applications and vehicle integration.

AIKling AI released Kling 4.0 on October 15, a video generation model that produces up to 30 seconds in a single native generation.

AIKling AI's article compares eight free AI video generators, including Kling 4.0, Runway, Hailuo AI, PixVerse, Luma Dream Machine, Pika, Google Veo and Adobe Firefly Video.

AIThe Hong Kong Productivity Council opened the city's first experimental embodied AI hub in Kowloon Tong on Thursday, with seven mainland and Hong Kong companies, including Unitree Robotics and Galbot, participating.

AIXiaomi has open-sourced MiDashengLM-Spatial, an roughly 8-billion-parameter audio model under Apache 2.0 that describes sounds and reasons about their direction, distance and movement from binaural input.

AIHuawei, MetaX, Biren and Moore Threads each announced Day-0 support for StepFun's Step 5 Preview, whose weights opened on October 15, meaning the model could be loaded and served on their hardware from release.

AIOpenCode says calls to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash inside its platform no longer use plan credits, so the model is free there.

AIMiniMax says its team will be at the Open Source AI Week kickoff party hosted by Hugging Face at The Midway tomorrow, October 16, and will bring merchandise.