On 18 August, Xiaomi president Lu Weibing and vice president and CFO Lin Shiwei took questions on the group’s second-quarter 2026 results. On the smart-EV business they addressed five points: the Pengcheng model’s buyers barely overlap with existing models; the Pengcheng N90 Max and N70 Max are not yet priced, so margin impact is unclear; … Read more
AI large models are evolving from a business and product into the infrastructure a company runs on. Past software and hardware firms organised by product, with AI as one function among imaging, voice, recommendation or interaction. After foundation models arrived, AI reached product definition, user interaction and service distribution. Teams once split by product must … Read more
Yesterday OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber-security programme and launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model built for security scenarios. Notably, GPT-5.6-Cyber splits AI cyber capability into two directions: Daybreak Blue for defence work, and Daybreak Red for advanced security research and attack simulation. This red-blue confrontation is the core drill mechanism traditional security uses to validate system safety. … Read more
How expensive is AI, really? We once measured compute in GPU counts. Now OpenAI and NVIDIA measure it in gigawatts. On 17 August, the PORTS-Pike project disclosure showed OpenAI building world-class AI infrastructure in Ohio. OpenAI said it has secured about 8 GW of IT capacity at the site, with NVIDIA providing credit support for … Read more
In August 2026, Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, its new robot foundation model. Pretraining used over 1 million hours of first-person human video, roughly 170 years of continuous awake experience. Across seven benchmarks, the WAM architecture reached 1.55 times the success rate of the previous VLA models. High-precision manufacturing task success jumped from Dyna-1’s 20 per … Read more
Future MCU competition is not just about performance, but who understands the application better, said Yang Ping, marketing director of Nation Technologies, at the Munich Shanghai Electronics Fair. The fair opened on 1 July in Shanghai. Amid the displays, control-chip innovation around robots and AI infrastructure stood out. As an MCU leader in AI, Nation … Read more
On 12 August, Manus published an open letter to users announcing it would soon resume operating as an independent company and keep serving its millions of users worldwide. As part of resuming independence and complying with regulatory requirements in certain jurisdictions, data some users generated on or after Meta’s acquisition day of 29 December 2025 … Read more
DeepSeek, once nicknamed the large-model “price butcher”, is sheathing the knife. At 00:00 on 17 August, its new API prices took effect. Founder Liang Wenfeng is walking back the rock-bottom pricing that built DeepSeek’s brand. (Source: Sohu Tech) The adjustment covers V4 Pro and V4 Flash and introduces peak-valley pricing for the V4 series. Beijing … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence has learned that Light Origins has closed a several-hundred-million-yuan Pre-A round. The round was led by Guoke Investment, with CMG Venture Capital and Xianghe Capital joining, and the funds will go to large-scale embodied-model training, multimodal data infrastructure, full-stack hardware-software platform research, and expansion of a high-density talent team. Light Origins, founded … Read more
Canchen Technology has completed a seed, angel and angel-plus series of rounds totalling tens of millions of yuan, with backers including Oriental Fortune, Songhe Capital and several university and government-linked funds. The firm builds system-level virtual-organ spatio-temporal dynamic evolution models, a full-scale simulation platform from molecule and cell through tissue to organ, using AI digital … Read more