Shenzhen’s PaXini Opens a Showroom for Robot Touch
A robot’s understanding of the world usually begins with vision. But whether a grasp is stable, a plug is seated, or a p
The Belt
At WAIC, Qiling’s Robots Ran a Shop With No Remote Control
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Qiling did something many robot demos avoid: it let the machines run the shop by themselves.
Why LiDAR Makers Are Racing to Design Their Own Chips
For years the debate over LiDAR was simple: believers called it essential safety redundancy, sceptics led by Tesla calle
Shenzhen’s Bangqi Lets Factories Rent Robots Instead of Buying Them
The hardest part of automating a warehouse has rarely been the robots. It is the bill: buy the hardware, absorb the depr
Pingshan Opens a Sea-Air-Land Test Ground for Smart and Low-Altitude Transport
Shenzhen’s Pingshan district has landed a national endorsement for something distinctly local: a test ground where cars,
Shenzhen’s Quiet Bet: Why One Lawmaker Says the City Is Built for Industrial AI
Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution, and Shenzhen is unusually well placed to turn it into indus
Jaime Xiao: 25 American companies just defended Chinese open-weight models
Jaime Xiao on the letter NVIDIA, Microsoft and Meta just signed — titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, a lobbying front to keep Chinese open-weight models legal in America. The real split isn’t US versus China; it’s closed-model rentiers versus the open-weight industrial base. Full post below.
Jaime Xiao: A four-minute AI film fooled Douyin — and no camera was rolled
Jaime Xiao on the four-minute AI film that just went viral on Douyin — every frame generated, live-action quality 99% of the way to cinema, no studio and no credits. His guess: an AI video lab quietly testing its newest model on 700 million scrollers. Full post below.
Jaime Xiao: The richest rock band in history never sold a ticket
Jaime Xiao on Splay — the Tsinghua computer-science rock band whose members now run Moonshot AI (Kimi) and SenseTime. The drummer just shipped a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model instead of an album. Full post below.
Jaime Xiao: Hefei’s scavenger model and CXMT’s 471% IPO
Jaime Xiao on Hefei — the city that turned other people’s rubbish bins into a RMB 3.3 trillion memory empire. CXMT’s STAR Market debut opened up 471.6%, past ICBC to top the A-share table. But the real story is seventeen years of buying distressed assets at scrap value: BOE in 2008, Qimonda’s abandoned DRAM patents … Read more