China AI

AIDAMO Academy's Xuantie unit releases the Xuantie E908A, which it says is the first RISC-V CPU IP to reach both ASIL-B and ASIL-D, with single-point safety metrics above 90%.

AIZhongxingwei, a Chinese interconnect chip company, unveiled 12 mass-produced chips and three new high-performance interconnect products at a launch event.

AIVercel says MiniMax M3.1 Flash, model ID minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash, is now available free on AI Gateway.

AIApple CEO Tim Cook said on October 15 that Apple Intelligence and Alibaba's Qwen model received approval in China, with beta versions expected later this month.

AIMiniMax has released M3.1 Flash on its API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens.

AIMiniMax M3.1 Flash reaches #26 of 183 on Design Arena's Overall Frontend leaderboard, a 29-position rise over MiniMax M3 at #55.

AIVercel says MiniMax M3.1 Flash is available free on AI Gateway, with better agentic, coding, and cybersecurity performance. The free offer runs through October 22 when served by MiniMax.

AIAliExpress and Tmall announced the "China Brand Global Growth Plan" on October 19, 2026, at AliExpress's annual summit in Shenzhen, with AliExpress allocating special funds for angel investments in AI hardware brands.

AIErik Kannike releases qwen3-4b-deslop, a Qwen3-4B-Instruct fine-tune trained on a MacBook Air to avoid em dashes, "not X, but Y" constructions and lists of three without a system prompt.

AISenseTime releases a study of GPT-6-Astra's embodied intelligence across 12 simulation benchmarks and 8 real-robot platforms, alongside the open-source SenseNova-RoboRSI harness and a 27B model.

AIMiniMax says M3.1 Flash, previously known as the anonymous Space Bunny model, costs one-third as much as M3 and runs three times faster.

AIMiniMax released M3.1 Flash, which it says reaches leading-model levels on agentic, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity benchmarks.

Why it matters: The post lists benchmark scores against named competitors and gives per-million-token prices, so readers can compare cost and capability directly.

AIInferact says it is an API launch partner for MiniMax M3.1 Flash and will provide the production inference serving stack using its vLLM engineering and Inferact Platform.

AIMiniMax releases MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, a multimodal model that it says improves on M3 across multiple benchmarks, especially complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. OpenRouter lists the model as free to use.

AIMiniMax announced M3.1 Flash, which it says was an earlier version called Space Bunny on OpenRouter.

AIMiniMax-M3.1-Flash entered Arena's Code WebDev leaderboard at #12 among open models with 1588 points, up 106 points from MiniMax-M3's 1482.

AIOpenCode says Space Bunny was MiniMax M3.1 Flash, which ranked first on OpenCode for 12 consecutive days and served 106T tokens. The model is now available on OpenCode and free for the next three days.

AIOpenRouter says its stealth model Space Bunny was its top model for 10 straight days, processing 56.7 trillion tokens. The model has returned as MiniMax's M3.1 Flash and is free on OpenRouter for the next 72 hours.

AIMiniMax says M3.1 Flash reaches frontier-level results on agent, coding and visual reasoning tasks at one-third the cost and three times the speed of M3.

AIMiniMax is preparing to release MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, according to its API reference docs, which describe it as a frontier multimodal coding model with a 1M context window and tunable thinking depth.

AILightmake, a 3D printing company founded in April 2025 by Wang Zhiyu, says it is focusing on small businesses and print farms rather than consumers.

AIDeepSeek has merged its Harness, Web, App and Platform teams into a new Product Department led by former Harness head Cui Tianyi. The company is recruiting product designers to improve the consumer experience.

AICITIC Securities says DeepSeek Harness could become the key link that turns DeepSeek from model supply into a platform ecosystem.

AIModelScope says the MiniMax H3 Character Swap LoRA is now available, an experimental adapter that recasts a selected person in video using an image reference.

AIMemSilicon, a Chinese chip company, has closed a Series A round of over 400 million yuan led by Boyuan Capital.

AINetEase's LobsterAI released its September report on Chinese office AI agent user behavior, showing Zhipu GLM's token share rose 166.7% month on month, the highest among leading vendors.

AISenseTime SenseCore CTO Xuan Shanming says its 10,000-GPU heterogeneous clusters split Prefill and Decode across mixed domestic and high-bandwidth GPUs, linked by KV Cache over 800G, 400G and 200G fabrics.

AIXiaomi Auto said on October 19 that HyperOS 1.18 is rolling out over the air to SU7 and YU7 vehicles equipped with Xiaomi HAD. The update smooths acceleration and braking, makes lane changes and detours more natural, and removes spoken lane-change prompts.

AIVolcano Engine is offering up to 200,000 yuan per month to creators whose fully AI-made comic or digital-human short dramas, produced with Seedance and published on the Hongguo app, rank in the monthly AI-drama TOP50.

AIAliExpress president Jing Shi announced at its annual summit on October 19 targets of 50% annual growth in both brand count and brand GMV over the next three years.

AITogether AI says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now available on its platform at the same price as before.

AIDJI launched Dock 4, its first unattended drone platform with automated battery swapping, on October 14.

AIMemSilicon has closed a Series A round of over 400 million yuan, led by Boyuan Capital, to fund RRAM commercialization and development of its LPU, an inference chip for large models.

AICXMT shares fell 6.5% Monday after the company forecast net profit of 131 billion to 132.5 billion yuan for January to September 2026, reversing a 5.28 billion yuan loss a year earlier.

AIAlibaba's Tongyi MAI team has open-sourced OpenGCUA, a full stack for a generalist computer-use agent, including a harness, cross-device SDK, native macOS app, evaluation trajectories, and a reference agent.

Why it matters: The post explains how OpenGCUA lets models choose observation, action, and task organization, with OSWorld-v2 results and a real-device token-cost caveat.

AIDevelopers spotted three unannounced OpenAI models, aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-blue-alpha, in a third-party mirror of the API model list before the entries were removed.

AIThe source's headline claims domestic Chinese AI models have surpassed frontier models such as Claude and GPT through a new scaling law approach.

AIHugging Face says FLUX.1-dev, from German lab Black Forest Labs, is the most built-upon model on the Hugging Face Hub, with 43k derivative models.

AIDeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an updated version of its V4.1-Flash model, which the company says completes tasks faster without giving a figure.

AIChina is considering export controls that could check the global spread of its AI models and chips, according to Semafor.