The funding will support clinical development, spacecraft prototypes and commercialization of next-generation optical technologies.

Alibaba has reduced prices across its Qwen-Audio voice models by as much as 95%, including a roughly 70% cut for text-to-speech services.

China Life has increasingly used both S transactions and fund investments to gain exposure to technology assets.

The roughly 3-meter-tall robot weighs about 500 kilograms with a rider and can switch between bipedal and quadrupedal modes.

For Momenta, the partnership also provides a route for its driving technology to reach overseas markets through Stellantis’ global brands.

Nio and Geely began working together on battery swapping in November 2023, when Geely joined Nio’s battery-swapping alliance.

CXMT founder and memory titan GigaDevice’s venture arm reportedly behind the AI champion with a 5 billion yuan bet.

The funding will support rocket development, clinical programs, AI platforms, production expansion and advanced packaging.

The deployment puts hundreds of robots into a public environment with large visitor volumes and unpredictable human interactions.

He has been involved in the development of Qwen’s core language models as well as Qwen-Coder and multimodal models.

Many teachers and students are already using AI agents for lesson preparation, research and learning, but mostly on an individual basis.

The company said that during a one-month trial, the platform registered 20,000 users and collected 13,000 task submissions.

The move marks a shift from developing the Xingshu Project itself toward building a broader industrial ecosystem around space-based computing.

In the theater, individual robotic skills can be combined into complete performances and executed by multiple robots.

Companies in satellite communications, power semiconductors, sustainable aviation fuel and medical devices raised fresh capital.

AI is increasingly moving out of software and into machines that drive, fly, work and interact with the physical world.

A tether supplies continuous power from the ground, overcoming the flight-time limitations of onboard batteries.

The 104 Zhejiang companies making the list span internet services, automotive, chemicals, advanced materials and smart manufacturing.

Its Qwen team plans to train a new model with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters as it moves toward artificial superintelligence, or ASI.

The platform’s customer base had grown sixfold over the past year as AI agents began moving into core business processes.

Users can activate QwenWork with a single voice command and have the AI turn conversations into tasks, notes and follow-ups.

New capital injections will support clinical research, robot foundation models and Physical AI commercialization.

The V900 is scheduled to enter mass production in the first quarter of 2027 and will be deployed across Alibaba Cloud data centers.

This move comes as the Hangzhou-based tech giant ramps up AI infrastructure investment to meet surging demand for computing power.

The restructuring comes four days after Ant adopted Alibaba’s QwenWork as its AI workplace platform for all employees.

The common thread is a shift from robots performing demonstrations to robots becoming part of daily store operations.

The new model increases the number of degrees of freedom while reducing the overall size and improving drive precision, according to Unitree.

Yangtze River Delta startups in semiconductor, fusion and AI-for-science spaces continue to draw fresh capital.

CXMT said the G5 yield ramp-up will take time and that new products must go through customer testing and certification before broader adoption.

As AI computing drives server power densities toward the megawatt range, conventional air cooling is becoming increasingly impractical.

Tesla’s reported supplier strategy highlights the role of China’s existing automotive manufacturing base in its robotics push.

Step 5 Preview uses a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with 600 billion total parameters but activates only 27 billion at a time.

Instead of only subsidizing rent or providing cash, cities could increasingly help startups by covering part of their AI usage costs.

The scale of the project reflects a shift in how humanoid robots are being tested in commercial environments.

The tie-up signals a shift from robots executing fixed commands to AI agents that can reason, call external skills and act in the physical world.

At 19,999 yuan, its robots sit closer to the price range of high-end consumer electronics than traditional industrial robots.

Yangtze River Delta startups in metal 3D printer, tactile robotics, photonic chips and aerospace automation raised fresh funding.

Qwen said the simulation data will also be used to train vision-language-action models for telescope control.

The idea is to shift robot deployment from one-off engineering projects toward a more repeatable process for producing and improving skills.

New capital will support R&D, clinical trials, commercialization and the deployment of AI-driven scientific research platforms.

Fleet size, real-world operating data and access to large-scale computing are becoming increasingly intertwined.

The rebound reversed a monthlong slide that had taken the stock below the 500-yuan mark for the first time on September 10.

The latest deployments give potential customers a more concrete reference point as the company seeks to expand beyond China.

For Chinese AI companies expanding overseas, the partnership marks a shift in how their products can reach foreign consumers.

The initiative reflects an effort to move from investing in individual biotech projects to building an ecosystem around them.

A supernode essentially connects thousands of computing cards through high-speed links so they can work together as a single computing system.

The Hangzhou experiment takes a different approach, positioning seniors as AI users, creators and contributors.

The app then limits access to four learning functions: photo-based Q&A, AI writing, translation and deep research.

Shanghai AI drugmaker Anew Labs raised $290 million in its first standalone funding round, valuing the company at $1.5 billion.

The latest additions broaden that effort from drug and product information to medical knowledge and nutrition data.

Through its partnership with Stellantis, Leapmotor International now has more than 1,000 sales and service outlets across 45 markets.

The essay offers an unusual glimpse into how AI automation is being perceived by engineers at the cutting edge of China’s AI industry.

The first vehicle rolling off the line less than a year after the partnership was signed highlights the speed of the approach.

New capital infusion will support drug development, chip production, global expansion and next-generation industrial technologies.

Reuters, Airbnb and Pinterest have also adopted Qwen models as companies seek to reduce their reliance on proprietary AI systems.

The strategy sets PrimeBot apart from most humanoid-robot companies focusing on factories, logistics and other applications.

Huawei says the 3D architecture can halve the time required for mechanical, electrical and plumbing delivery.

New capital injections will support product R&D, manufacturing expansion, equipment upgrades and overseas growth.

The decision to hold the finals in Hangzhou comes as the global AI open-source ecosystem becomes increasingly fragmented.

The push comes as the global silicon-photonics industry shifts from technology validation to manufacturing, testing, deployment and scaling.

The appointment would mark one of DeepSeek’s most significant senior hires outside its core tech team since the firm was founded.

The strategy also marks a potential shift for China’s leading robotics companies from exporting products to exporting ecosystems.

Whether Lei’s latest visit was simply a high-profile show of support or a sign of deeper industrial cooperation remains unclear.

The original G1 was launched in 2024 at 85,000 yuan and helped Unitree become the world’s top humanoid robot maker by shipments in 2025.

Yangtze River Delta startups in embodied AI, photonics, world models and quantum computing raised fresh funding.

The concept originated in Europe, where countries including the Netherlands and Belgium introduced similar schemes in the 2000s.

Han said this could change the starting point of commerce from standardized products and fixed app pages to user intent.

For developers, the bigger question is whether DeepSeek will bring its aggressive pricing strategy to voice AI.

Shanghai and Anhui startups working on financial AI research, terahertz fusion technology and high-speed flight raised fresh funding.

AI agents could make services that once relied on scarce experts or were too costly to deliver at scale available to a much wider population.

With Enflame’s listing, all four have now entered China’s capital markets, marking a new phase for the country’s homegrown AI-chip industry.

This move comes as the Chinese robotics maker seeks to push deeper into the underlying software stack for embodied AI.

The Tengger deployment shows how legged robots are moving beyond industrial inspection into environmental and conservation work.

A new “Health” section has been added to Afu’s homepage, alongside its AI chat and medical-service entrances.

As an official DeepSeek partner, Tencent’s WorkBuddy has fully integrated V4.1 Flash in China and is offering a two-week promotional discount.

Yangtze River Delta startups in magnetic-drive systems, gene editing, semiconductors and AI infrastructure raised fresh funding.

The potential listing comes after China expanded the STAR Market’s so-called fifth listing standard in June to cover AI companies.

The development has drawn attention partly because Geng does not fit the conventional profile of an academic or science communicator.

The system is powered by Robbyant’s LingBot-VLA 2.0 embodied-AI foundation model, which is designed to work across different robot bodies.

Rather than simply discussing AI in theory, the guide provides step-by-step instructions and ready-made prompts for each scenario.

The new base will help DEEP Robotics scale up production of robots already proven in business-oriented applications.

He expects that “ChatGPT moment” in embodied intelligence to arrive in as little as two to three years, though it could take five to 10 years.

The delta’s startups working on next-gen AI chips, physical AI, robotics, fusion and AI toys raised fresh funding.

The trend reflects a broader shift in Zhejiang from “follower” innovation toward technology-led competition.

He also criticized what he called overly aggressive innovation, in which insufficiently tested designs are incorporated into vehicles.

Excelland’s listing offers a useful test of how far investor enthusiasm for robotics can outrun the underlying economics.

The company expects the technology eventually to expand beyond flagship smartphones into smart vehicles, edge servers and wearables.

DeepSeek’s latest strategy combines aggressive pricing to win users and peak/off-peak rates to encourage better use of computing capacity.

More revealingly, the company’s internal testing questionnaire asks users whether the model could fully replace the current DeepSeek V4 Pro online.

The launch reflects a shift in AI-agent development from helping individuals work faster toward assigning AI agents specific roles.

New capital injection will support product development, commercialization, global expansion and AI infrastructure.

That puts Deli up against an increasingly concentrated market led by Shenzhen companies including Bambu Lab, Creality and Anycubic.

The hiring points to DeepSeek’s growing focus on its in-house elastic computing platform, DSec, or DeepSeek Elastic Compute.

The advance comes as global AR-glasses makers seek to move beyond green-only or limited-color displays into full-color gadgets.

Unitree said the model overcomes bottlenecks in real-time planning, decision-making and dynamic interaction.

The IFA partnership marks a move from testing individual overseas markets to building a more systematic international channel.

The latest rounds will fuel chip manufacturing, robot production, AI optimization and low-altitude technologies.

The model differs from many overseas AI finance products, which are generally built within individual platforms.

That raises a more obvious question: is the new unit as much about the IPO narrative as it is about technology?

The Stock Connect inclusion gives Manycore access to a broader pool of Chinese investors and could improve trading liquidity.