Pudong wins national pilot to tackle embodied AI’s data shortage
The designation puts Pudong in charge of exploring standards and practices that could eventually be adopted across the country.
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QwenWork tops 30 million users in first month as enterprise AI takes off
The rapid growth of QwenWork comes as China’s technology giants increasingly focus their AI firepower on workplace agents.
Today’s Yangtze funding roundup: Hydrogen, AI marketing, diagnostics…
Chinese startups in hydrogen materials, AI marketing and immuno-diagnostics have completed fresh funding rounds.
Tmall turns AI Tokens into a product users can buy like mobile data
Tmall is turning those services into standardized retail products that can be bought alongside more familiar digital goods.
Westlake University’s AI-designed drug wins first approval in China
The drug took about three and a half years to reach approval, far shorter than the traditional drug-development timeline.
Hangzhou district bets on robot parts to build the next Huaqiangbei
For Linping, the bigger bet is that robotics will reward supply chains that can respond as quickly as robot designs evolve.
84-year-old fragrance founder rings IPO bell after 27-year journey
The IPO gives Grascent capital to expand high-end fragrance production, upgrade factory automation and invest in new products and technologies.
Pianist Lang Lang gets his personal robot from PrimeBot
The partnership came as Shanghai-based PrimeBot opened official livestream sales on e-commerce platforms including Tmall and Douyin.
Today’s Yangtze funding roundup: Medtech, clean energy, EDA, robotics…
The latest rounds will back global medtech expansion, AI power infrastructure, robot vision and sensing, agentic EDA and embodied robotics.
Alibaba updates Qwen3.8-Max, takes top spot in global coding benchmark
The model is available through Alibaba’s Qwen AI platform as an API and has been integrated into Qwen Office, Qoder and the Qwen app.