AI

Huawei’s Richard Yu: Domestic Teams Are Fighting to Develop EUV Lithography

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At a recent media briefing, Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, shared the latest on terminal business and the HarmonyOS ecosystem. Yu said Huawei once followed a global path, cooperating with US, European, Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese firms, but since 2019, to keep the business alive, Huawei joined domestic supply chains to … Read more

US Blocked the Chips, Then Watched China’s Data Centre Capacity Climb to 24 GW

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The United States has long banned its advanced AI chips from reaching China, fearing Chinese labs would use Nvidia silicon to build frontier AI. But Washington miscalculated one thing: blocking the chips does not block the compute. US Blocked the Chips, Then Watched China’s Data Centre Capac (Source: Sohu) One analysis of global data centres … Read more

Mega-Kernel vs Super-Operator: Inside the Trillion-Parameter Inference War

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How do you make a 2.8 trillion parameter model run fast? Recently, teams on both sides of the Pacific fixed their eyes on Kimi K3, the world’s largest open source model by parameter count. With 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion activated, K3 raised the ceiling for open models, but ordinary AI servers struggle … Read more

This physical-AI startup wants to put a brain into America’s 280,000 legacy factories

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On 9 September, the US physical-AI startup Harmoni closed a 10 million dollar Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with valuation undisclosed, and on the same day unveiled HAL. HAL is an AI that lives on the shop floor: a worker can ask why a machine is running slower than usual, file a repair … Read more

Wanxun unveils NOVA 2.0, a flexible embodied brain proven across 10 million real-world operations

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Wanxun, a global front-runner in flexible embodied intelligence, has released NOVA 2.0, the Neuromorphic Omniversal Versatile Architecture, which it calls the industry’s first open-world, all-weather, commercial-delivery-grade embodied intelligence architecture. It is forged from more than 10 million multi-dimensional extreme-condition operations across 40-plus real industry scenarios. Somatic intelligence against extreme conditions Embodied intelligence is moving out … Read more

Desay SV breaks the cockpit-domain fusion bottleneck with its dual-excellence single-chip architecture

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Leaner architecture and faster response are the direction of travel for smart cars, and cockpit-domain convergence is one of its sharpest nodes. Zuoshi Auto Research forecasts China’s cockpit-domain fusion market will grow at a 36 per cent compound rate from 2026 to 2030, with 3.6 times the headroom still to come by the end of … Read more

Why China’s autonomous-driving experts are fleeing to embodied AI

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A quiet migration is reshaping Chinese robotics. By one tally, nearly 40 core autonomous-driving executives and technical leads have moved into embodied AI. The names leaving Li Auto alone lost eight senior people in half a year, most to robotics. Former autonomous-driving president Lang Xianpeng founded Kunlun Robotics, raising three rounds in 90 days to … Read more