China AI

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.

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.

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.

AISemiAnalysis argues that Beijing will not slow frontier AI development to match Western safety regimes, favoring a speed-first approach.

AIMiniMax says its open-source H3 model is almost on par with closed-source state-of-the-art video world models on physics.

AIA ComfyUI developer generated 15-second 448×256 video in 15 seconds or less on one RTX 5090 using MiniMax H3 with FastVideo's FastH3 V2 checkpoint in four sampling steps.

AIOnce hallucinations are accounted for, Muse Spark 1.3 (max) drops from 26.7% to 8.9%, leaving Grok 4.7 (xhigh) first on the headline metric at 9.4%.

AIArtificial Analysis reports that Kimi K3 (max) achieves a 93.0% Criterion Pass Rate but averages 2.09 material hallucinations per task.

AISemiAnalysis argues China's real AI safety approach prioritizes rapid development, regulating AI applications and outputs rather than frontier models.

Why it matters: The piece tests China's stated AI safety position against its releases, statements, and rules, offering a checkable case for how US pacing debates should read Beijing.

AIStepFun's flagship model Step 5 Preview is free to use in Cline for one week. The quoted background says it scores ahead of Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 on DeepSWE, positioning it among the strongest open-weights coding models.

AIGoodfire has published research on deploying cyber monitors in production on Kimi K3. The post links to the full research write-up and invites organizations to get in touch about deploying these monitors.

AIGoodfire built cybersecurity monitors for Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 that it says are more accurate, 50x faster, and 50x cheaper than an optimized LLM judge.

AINVIDIA has published Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local on Hugging Face, a quantized version of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model.

AINVIDIA releases GLM-5.3-Flash-FP4-Local on Hugging Face, a quantized version of ZAI's GLM-5.3-Flash made with quantization-aware distillation.

AIGoodfire Research describes probe-based cyber monitors for Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 deployed on a production inference stack.

AIVercel says StepFun's flagship Step 5 Preview, built for agentic coding, research, and finance, is now live on AI Gateway.

AIJulien Chaumond, Hugging Face's account, mocked the idea of needing US or Chinese rivals when European partners exist.

AIStepFun's flagship model, Step 5 Preview, is available free for one week through Nous Portal, the platform from NousResearch. The post invites users to try it with Hermes Agent and share what they build.

AIStepFun is offering its flagship Step 5 Preview model free in OpenCode for one week, targeting agentic and professional work. The preview supports a 1M context window, multimodal input, and zero data retention.

AIA developer reverse-engineered the firmware of a Nokia 110 4G and built a native AI chat app that runs on the phone.

AIMeta's Muse personal AI agent, launched on September 8, surpassed 2.5 million downloads in its first two weeks and topped free-app rankings on Apple and Google's US app stores.

AIOpenRouter says StepFun's Step 5 Preview is now live on its platform, priced at $1.00 per million input tokens and $2.70 per million output tokens.

AIStepFun's Step 5 Preview outperforms Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 on six of eight benchmarks in its own evaluation. Reported scores include 67.7 on DeepSWE, 80.5 on ProgramBench, 49.0 on StepCodeBench, and 66.4 on FrontierFinance.