Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. Building a more capable AI model is only half the battle. The other half is making it affordable to run at scale. DeepSeek announced a V4.1 Flash update aimed at faster task completion and shorter outputs, alongside an open-source framework for more efficient inference. […]
Shanghai-based cleaning robotics startup Jingji Intelligent has raised tens of millions of RMB in seed funding from Haowen Tianshu Robotics and Shanghai Lanyun Industrial Development. The financing, disclosed on October 20, comes about a month after the company’s establishment in September. Jingji focuses on cleaning vertical surfaces, countertops and sanitary fixtures, applying force control, machine […]
CATL reported third-quarter revenue of RMB 165.22 billion, up 58.6% from a year earlier, while net profit attributable to shareholders increased 14.5% to RMB 21.25 billion. The Chinese battery maker disclosed the results on October 20. For the first nine months of 2026, revenue reached RMB 442.14 billion, an increase of 56.2%, while attributable net […]
DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its large-scale model services, on October 20. The framework supports Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend processors and provides capabilities including distributed inference, speculative decoding and structured output. DeepSeek said the release is intended to help developers and businesses improve throughput and latency while reducing computing costs and energy […]
Xiaomi discontinued its MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.5 models at 10 a.m. Beijing time on October 21, moving their API services to the newer MiMo-V2.6 family. Requests to the older model names have been automatically routed to MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, respectively, since October 14. The switch gives users of the text-only MiMo-V2.5-Pro access to multimodal understanding through […]
Chinese robot hardware startup YITA announced on October 20 that it has raised more than RMB 100 million across its seed and seed-plus rounds. Investors included Galbot, Fourier, Matrix Partners China, CCB International, SenseTime Guoxiang Capital and the L2F founder fund. Lighthouse Capital served as the company’s incubator and exclusive financial adviser. Founded in May […]
Tencent has opened Yuanbao Search to external developers and businesses through Tencent Cloud, turning the search infrastructure used by its own AI products into a commercial service. Announced on October 20, the offering combines publicly available web information with Tencent’s content ecosystem and is designed to provide information retrieval for large language models and AI […]
BYD launched its second-generation Seagull electric hatchback in China on October 20, with five variants priced from RMB 65,900 to RMB 99,900. The redesigned model expands from four seats to five and switches from front-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive, while adding more cabin space and a front storage compartment. The new Seagull measures 4,205mm long […]
Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. Sinomags is approaching a Hong Kong IPO with two measures of its position: first among Chinese magnetic sensor companies, and tenth globally, with a 0.6% market share. Both rankings are based on 2025 revenue, according to Frost & Sullivan data cited in the […]
As more AI hardware focuses on voice assistants, information processing, and workplace productivity, one Chinese startup is taking a different approach by using AI to help people preserve their life experiences. Shanghai-based Vibe Technology has introduced Souvi, an outdoor AI memory device designed for activities such as hiking, camping, travel, and urban exploration. By combining […]
Huawei’s automotive technology company Yinwang has signed a strategic agreement with CATL and its battery-swapping subsidiary Contemporary Amperex Energy Service Technology, or CAES. The companies will work on battery compatibility, swapping networks and the integration of Huawei’s Qiankun driving technology with CATL’s Choco-Swap system. The partnership will connect vehicle, station and cloud services, allowing vehicles […]
ACE Robotics, founded by SenseTime co-founder Xiaogang Wang, released its ACE-Brain-0.6 embodied AI model on October 19. Built through supervised fine-tuning of Qwen3.5-9B, the model focuses on identifying objects, locating them in images and determining where a robot can interact with them. The company said it trained the model using approximately 1 million spatial-grounding samples. […]
Chery unveiled its Ziwei automotive chip lineup at its global innovation conference on October 20. The portfolio comprises C-series central computing chips, S-series automotive silicon carbide chips and M-series vehicle-control chips, extending the automaker’s semiconductor development across computing and power electronics. The C100 central computing chip targets on-device physical AI. Chery said a vehicle configuration […]
Ant Group released its Ming-3.0 speech model family on October 20, making five models available across speech synthesis, audio understanding and conversation, and speech recognition. Developers can use individual models or combine them into voice-based applications. The text-to-speech models support voice cloning from reference recordings and voice design through natural-language descriptions. Users can also direct […]
Chinese autonomous delivery vehicle company Neolix announced on October 20 that it has completed a nearly $400 million Series E funding round. Boyu Capital and a national-level fund jointly led the round. Jiemian, citing people familiar with the investment, identified the latter as China’s National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund. Other investors included Alibaba’s AEF […]
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy unveiled the XuanTie E908A automotive processor IP at the RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen on October 19. Designed for safety-related computing, domain controllers and vehicle gateways, the processor IP supports the ASIL-B and ASIL-D automotive functional safety requirements, according to DAMO Academy. The company also introduced a processor roadmap for autonomous driving […]
Tencent has recently introduced Lüpaopao, a free short-drama service inside WeChat, offering AI-generated series alongside live-action and animated titles. The mini-program adds another distribution channel to China’s expanding market for serialized mobile entertainment. ByteDance’s Hongguo reached 168 million daily active users in July, up 107% year on year, according to QuestMobile figures cited in Nomura […]
Xiaomi has registered the “XIAOMI SU9 LUX” trademark for vehicles, adding to reports that it is developing a larger executive sedan. The trademark record shows an application date of February 13 and a registration announcement on September 7, with protection running until September 2036. Chinese automotive reports have linked the name to a longer-wheelbase SU7 […]
Rokid has partnered with Tencent Mobility Services to launch ride-hailing through its AI glasses. Announced on October 16, the service lets users state a destination by voice and receive vehicle details and estimated arrival times through the glasses. The integration connects Rokid’s assistant with Tencent’s travel-service agent using the Agent-to-Agent protocol. Tencent provides functions including […]
Hangzhou-based robot AI startup Gewu Tongzhi has completed an angel funding round of nearly RMB 100 million, according to reports published on October 18. Investors include Hongfu Asset Management, Peak Investment, Hangzhou Capital and Hangzhou Talent Group. Founded in 2026, the company develops AI for dexterous robotic manipulation, combining world models with learning from physical […]
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