UBTECH will build its first robot manufacturing base outside China in Almaty, Kazakhstan. During the Kazakhstan-China Investment Forum, Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met UBTECH vice president Yong Zhong in Almaty and voiced support for the plant, which will become UBTECH’s first production base outside Chinese territory. UBTECH to Build Its First Robot Base Outside China, … Read more
Bona Film Group has announced that Sanxingdui: Tales of the Future, a 100-minute feature fully generated by artificial intelligence with no live actors on screen, will open nationwide on 23 October, becoming the first AI-made feature to receive a public-release licence from China’s film regulator. China’s First AI-Made Feature Film Cleared Censors and Opens (Source: … Read more
Since ChatGPT, large language models have split into two camps. General models such as Baidu’s ERNIE, Alibaba’s Qwen and iFlytek’s Spark target the base layer, while vertical models train industry-specific systems on top of general ones for finance, health care, education and transport. China’s Small AI Shops Face a Life-or-Death Choice: General (Source: LeiPhone) Wu … Read more
DeepSeek is close to sealing a new financing round of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and the battery maker CATL among the largest backers, according to a Bloomberg report published on 6 October. DeepSeek Is Closing a RMB 80 Billion Round as It Lines Up a (Source: Zhidx) The terms already signed suggest … Read more
On 15 September, at the 2026 Embodied Perception Fusion and Multimodal LLM Innovation Seminar, Zhu Jie, vice president of Chaowei Dynamics, shared how to build a data system for general-purpose embodied intelligence. A Start-up Is Building the Data Plumbing That General-Purpos (Source: Gasgoo) The breakthrough in general embodied intelligence does not rest on a single … Read more
AI is moving from generating a picture that looks real to understanding space, predicting change and executing action. At ECCV 2026 that trend was impossible to miss. Why Spatial Intelligence Became AI’s Route Into the Physical (Source: LeiPhone) The programme chair reported 10,473 submissions with 2,834 accepted. By topic, image and video synthesis led with … Read more
One model-architecture diagram featured both Kimi and DeepSeek at once. The GLM-5.3-Flash project config uses 34 layers of Kimi’s KDA linear attention and 11 layers of DeepSeek’s KPool-DSA sparse attention across its 45 layers. Kimi and DeepSeek Showed Up in the Same Model Architecture (Source: LeiPhone) This year a clear shift appeared in large-model architectures: … Read more
Huawei’s self-developed optical engine Hi-ONE has surfaced at its first landing point, a kilo-card-scale supernode. At a recent optoelectronics expo, HiSilicon showed the engine’s bandwidth of up to 7.2 terabits and said Hi-ONE would enter the next-generation supernode in NPO (near-packaged optics) form. Huawei calls it the world’s first AI compute supernode to use NPO. … Read more
D-Robotics’ Sunrise S600 packs brain and motor control on one chip, its answer to Nvidia’s Jetson (Source: OFweek Robotics) The “picks and shovels” model On 17 September D-Robotics (Digua Robotics) closed a USD 400 million Series C. Mirae Asset led, with Meituan strategic, Hefei Guotou, Nanshan Industrial, Jingquan Capital and Cathay Capital following, while Hillhouse, … Read more
On 22 to 23 September, Intel held its ‘Same Core, Far Intelligence’ technology and ecosystem conference in Suzhou, putting the two main AI deployment lines on stage: industry AI, and physical AI for robots. Intel’s Physical-AI Play: One Chip for the Robot Brain and t (Source: OFweek Robotics) Wang Jingjia, general manager of Intel China’s … Read more