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China’s proposed export bans and controls of artificial intelligence technologies aim to tighten Beijing’s grip in the strategically vital sector, casting a cloud over the commercial prospects of domestic model developers in the global AI race, analysts say. The new measures come as concerns mount globally over the risks of advanced AI systems, following a …

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Fengqing Ensemble V1.0 passed operational review at the National Meteorological Centre, with an 11-day effective forecast range for global 500 hPa height in independent tests.

Built on deterministic networking, AXP is designed to register a million AI agents and run 100,000 at once, with cross-region agent addressing over 4,000 kilometers on the CENI testbed.

The first 0.2.1 release candidate adds custom plugin indexes, agent-built plugins and per-model reasoning settings. A 'deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017' API entry appeared and was removed.

The agent model built on a 744B MoE GLM-5.2 base moves past its September preview with higher scores on JobBench, WideSearch and PaperBench. Full weights are still marked 'Coming soon'.

UBTECH says Thinker-WM tops three embodied world model benchmarks. Adding depth lifted single-task success on RoboTwin by 15 percentage points in its ablation tests.

Users say a destination and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and password-free payment, with car details shown in view while they wait.

The Windows and macOS app lets users draw paths, arrange timelines, sync motion to music and monitor a fleet of humanoids, with a one-tap emergency stop.

The release spans an SDK, a 30B-A3B memory model and the MemHub local app. Tencent reports 72.6% on LoCoMo while cutting tokens per question from 1,159 to 703.

The new endpoints return structured web results or a page as Markdown. Each costs 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests and is capped at 5 queries per second per account.

Alibaba Group Holding’s two major domestic online marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall, plan to greatly expand the use of artificial intelligence across merchants’ operations next year, a senior executive said, as the e-commerce giant doubles down on the technology to drive growth amid a challenging consumer landscape. “Starting next year, AI will comprehensively…

Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML is expanding into next-generation hybrid bonding, a technique that creates dense electrical connections by directly joining chips or silicon wafers, according to a new report. Major Chinese companies are also adopting the technology to improve chip performance. ASML submitted 27 patent families related to hybrid bond…

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Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face monetization and compute challenges, experts said at a Rest of World event in San Francisco.

ModelSphere unifies cluster serving, KV caching and AutoTune under Apache 2.0, with claimed support for Ascend, Iluvatar, Moore Threads and Hygon DCU.

AgiBot's YuanSheng program will place Genie, Lingxi, Expedition and quadruped robots plus AIMA software seats at more than 20 Chinese universities.

Kuaishou's Kling AI opened Kling 4.0 to all users, adding dual-channel audio, multi-language lip sync and MCP/CLI access, with 4K HDR and an enterprise API due soon.

Calls to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash inside OpenCode no longer count against plan credits. The free version tops out at 200K tokens of context, and DeepSeek's own API still has no free tier.

Four domestic chip platforms said they supported Step 5 Preview on its open-weights release day, and Huawei said its first 1,024-card Atlas 950 SuperPoD went live alongside it.

At a Hangzhou auto parts plant, 15 humanoid robots now load parts at 15 stations in routine shifts. They take up to 40 seconds a cycle, against about 15 seconds for a skilled worker.

Built on MiDashengLM-7B with a new Spatial-Dasheng encoder, the Apache 2.0 model pairs general audio understanding with sound direction, distance and movement.

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek apologised and promised compensation to users after its services suffered a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday. DeepSeek will issue users a full refund for any consumption between October 8 and October 14 in the form of credits, according to a notice posted on the Hangzhou-based start-up’s application programmi…

Chinese artificial intelligence lab Z.ai’s latest flagship model, GLM-5.3, may be sophisticated enough to “fake” its way through safety tests, according to a new report published Thursday, sparking new fears about the ability of artificial intelligence systems to shape their own development. The model, launched in August, showed an ability to consider how i…

Open weights for StepFun's Step 5 Preview are live: 600B total, 27B active, 1M context. A new technical blog explains its 92-layer design, Sparse GQA and long-horizon agent training.

A proof of the codimension-one case of a 1995 conjecture by Etienne Ghys was developed with Intern-S2 over many rounds of dialogue, and a Peking University team formalized it in Lean.

A Chinese start-up has unveiled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light-source machine – a component often described as the “heart” of advanced lithography systems – marking an early but critical step in Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in chipmaking equipment. At the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, Langdao Silex displayed its self-devel…

Kunlun Tech's Skywork AI released Matrix-Game 4.0 under Apache-2.0: an engine runs the rules and physics while a causal video model renders low-poly frames into detailed game visuals.

Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML expects China to account for about 20 per cent of its total sales this year, after seeing shipments to the market more than double during the previous quarter despite mounting US pressure for tighter export restrictions on less advanced chipmaking machinery. The company’s sales to China surged 109 per cent in the thi…

China has granted approval for Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence models to be integrated into several Apple handsets, including the new iPhone Duo, in the Chinese market, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for the long-delayed launch of Apple Intelligence in the country. Updated network access permits for the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and severa…

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC), China’s leading flash-memory maker, is set to grow revenue six times faster than its industry peers this year as it expands into server-related business ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO), according to Counterpoint Research. The company’s server-related revenue was effectively zero in 2024, but c…

ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant ended the 30-day notice period for its SAEP protocol and will gradually allow AI screen automation in third-party apps that have not opted out.

ModelBest's MiniCPM-V 4.7 comes in 35B-A3B and 1B sizes. The MoE version decodes at over 13 tokens/s in about 3GB of memory on an iPhone 17 Pro Max, the company says.

Social media and AI translation has opened up Chinese AI voices to the world. The DeepSeek researcher’s blog controversy shows what it still leaves behind.