On 6 August, DeepSeek said it plans to raise the pricing of its API services overall in the near term, with a substantial increase expected, and advised users to arrange their usage sensibly. Specifics will follow an official notice. DeepSeek currently runs a peak-and-off-peak schedule. On weekdays, peak hours, Beijing time 09:00 to 12:00 and … Read more
On 9 August, Apple’s China website briefly published a Mac support guide stating that the China-version Apple Intelligence would work with Alibaba’s Qwen large model, which the market read as a sign that Apple’s China AI was finally landing. The document was taken down in under a day, and the site now keeps only the … Read more
On 6 July 2026, as a fork-lift robot rolled off the line, Hikrobot formally announced that cumulative output across all its mobile-robot categories had passed 200,000 units. It took the company only two years to go from its 100,000th unit in May 2024 to the second hundred thousand. By the latest count from the Mobile … Read more
All over the world, people are acting as preschool teachers for robots. In Indian factories, workers wear cameras while assembling, sorting and moving goods, recording first-person footage of complete operations. Inside Tesla’s Optimus training arena, staff wear helmet- and backpack-mounted camera rigs, repeatedly picking up cups, wiping tables and drawing curtains. Data firms pay ordinary … Read more
Arm China has bet its entire product roadmap on AI. At WAIC 2026 this month, the company unveiled upgrades across all four of its IP lines, NPU, CPU, SPU and VPU, alongside three newly formalised business tracks covering Edge AI, Physical AI and Cloud AI. The strategic pivot was set last year under the “AI … Read more
Elon Musk wants to put AI data centres in orbit. A Chinese energy company has already put one in the Gobi desert, and it is running on 100 per cent green power today. SpaceX raised 75 billion dollars in its listing, a record for a first round, and by the third trading day it had … Read more
Musk approved the third-generation Optimus at the end of June, with a supply target of 1,000 units a week in September and 100,000 sets of parts a year, even as Chinese rivals pull ahead on volume.
A robot ETF jumped 6.68 per cent as Beijing confirmed China makes 8 of every 10 humanoid and quadruped robots sold globally. Unitree’s IPO and surging revenue show the commercial era has arrived.
A new Roland Berger report argues the humanoid debate has shifted from ‘is it a bubble’ to ‘who grabs the position first’, with China’s deploy-first route building scale and real-world data fastest.
Bangqi’s chair Wu Xiaoqian explains why the firm refused to be a robot company: its bet is the factory’s ‘nervous system’, built on a self-developed industrial AI model, LDS and ADS.