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China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers rather than the companies that create them, according to a new study. Developers including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI make their model weights – essentially the “brains” of their AI systems – freely available for …

The dependencies that a potential rule on optical transceivers misses

In its first polar test, China SatNet's GW constellation connected Arctic research vessels with Antarctica's Qinling Station by video call, with under one second of delay.

Cosmoleap says it has finished China's first ground test of a chopsticks-style recovery tower, with its own tower controller, as Leap-1 works toward a 2027 debut.

Between July and September Tencent launched around eight vertical AI agents, each built into an existing business, from game creation and music to meetings and freelance matching.

Shanghai AI Lab's Intern-Decision comes in 0.8B, 2B and 4B sizes and returns choices, scores and yes/no answers with probabilities; MetaX shipped Day-0 support.

SUSTech-led collaborators publish in Cell a seed-to-seed 3D spatiotemporal rice cell atlas with an open portal and RICE scGPT single-cell foundation model.

After IceCube's Nobel win, Hailing/TRIDENT chief Xu Donglian says full sea trials are done and phase one of the deep-sea neutrino telescope is due next year.

On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi engineers went live with an unusual broadcast, streaming the training run of their new MiMo-V2.6 model. In San Francisco, Anthropic unveiled its frontier Opus 5.5 model. About an hour later, OpenAI crashed the party with the surprise r…

From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China is building tech capabilities that extend well beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare."

In an October 4 video, Richard Yu said Huawei has designed and mass-produced 381 Tau chips across phones, AI, general computing, networking and smart cars,.

China has plenty of AI safety talent, but weak philanthropy and a strong state shape what type of safety work actually gets done.

China Huadian's Mulei project in Xinjiang, the country's first 100-MW-class compressed CO2 energy storage plant, is on the grid, storing about 290 GWh a year with 6+ hours of output.

SuperCLUE's September embodied brain leaderboard puts Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 and ZTE's Nebula-EmbodiedBrain level at 77.48, with Xiaomi's MiMo-Embodied-7B leading small models.

China AI Weekly Digest (Sep 27-Oct 3, 2026)

DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-alpha.1 adds an experimental bridge that runs Claude Code Mods as Harness plugins, plus a new entry for agent-built plugins and a developer toolkit.

Xiaomi's Vision Gran Turismo concept arrives in GT7 with the October Spec IV update, the first Chinese-brand VGT, alongside the series' first driving lessons built around EVs.

openJiuwen's X-Router sends easy agent requests to light models and hard ones to stronger models, learning from feedback. Tests show near-baseline scores at roughly half the cost.

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China has set a five-year goal for the expansion of intelligent computing capacity to drive artificial intelligence (AI) that calls for a more than fourfold increase on what was in place at the end of June this year. To reach the 2030 target while being blocked by the United States from importing the most advanced Western-made AI chips will require innovati…

Galbot's ET1 bipedal humanoid comes in three versions at 79,000, 139,000 and 179,000 yuan, aimed at performances, theme parks and storefront interaction.

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The campus of BEST, China's compact fusion experiment in Hefei, was delivered early. The main machine has begun four-ring assembly, with completion targeted for end-2027.

openJiuwen, Huawei's open-source agent platform, added full-duplex voice and video to WorkSwarm: users can interrupt and keep talking while a background Core Agent works through tool tasks.

Inside China’s race to build a brain-implant industry, where competing technologies are advancing alongside the clinical and commercial systems needed to bring them into medical care.

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AIsphere's PixVerse R2 generates explorable audiovisual worlds in real time, taking text, image, audio and keyboard input mid-stream and keeping state across a session.

Bilibili's Index LLM team released Index-Translate under Apache-2.0: 2B, 9B and 35B-A3B preview text models for 150 languages, plus dubbing, syllable-control and long-document variants.

Huawei Digital Power's grid-interactive AIDC 1.0 pairs grid-forming storage, new UPS lines and an Ascend-aware liquid-cooling controller; a SenseTime site got 18 MW of power in 45 days.

Meta’s Muse and Tencent’s Xiaowei share one ambition, a personal AI agent for ordinary people, but take different paths: an AI-first assistant versus AI built into WeChat.

The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. GLM-5.3 almost matches Anthropic’s most advanced model in terms of its cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, meaning…

.5% growth...how did it get so bad?

Apple has claimed the top spot in China’s smartphone market following the release of its iPhone 18 Pro series, giving a potential boost to a sluggish handset market weighed down by weak consumer demand and soaring component costs. Sales of the new Pro models in their first three days after launching on September 18 were 12 per cent higher than sales of the …

AgiBot delivered its 20,000th robot, an Expedition A3 Ultra, to Chimelong on September 24, about six months after its 10,000th, as 300-plus of its robots began daily work at a Zhuhai park.

SparkDiffusion pairs 97% sparse attention, 3-step distillation and FP8 to cut a 720P Wan2.1 14B video from 4,769 to 18 seconds on one RTX 5090, a 265x speedup. Code and weights are open.

ByteDance's Doubao has tested a personal assistant project codenamed Spell since April and plans to launch a new product soon, Chinese media report. ByteDance has not announced it.

DeepSeek released Ascend versions of TileLang, DeepGEMM, DeepEP, TileKernels, FlashMLA and DeepSelect, while Huawei detailed a jointly defined 128-card SuperPoD Flex design.

The VY150 work-class ROV, built by Shandong Future Robot with Harbin Institute of Technology, left Weihai on Sept. 28 for South China Sea trials. It is rated to 4,500 m and carries a seven-axis arm.

Manus 2.0 brings the Cascade agent harness, which cut tokens 23.2% and cost 32% in one test, and Cue, an app giving each agent its own email, phone number and wallet. A China version is in the works.

DeepSeek released Harness v0.2 preview with official macOS and Windows installers, a plugin manager that installs npm packages without a command line, file previews and scheduled automations.