A gigawatt bet on domestic silicon DeepSeek plans to build a large intelligent-compute centre in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, deploying at least 160,000 of Huawei’s next-generation Ascend 950DT chips. The order is worth about USD 2.56 billion. If completed it would rank among the largest domestic AI chip clusters ever assembled. The centre is planned at … Read more
Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model it positions for long, complex workflows in software engineering, legal and financial knowledge work, and cyber defence. Unlike its consumer launches, Argon will roll out in stages, reaching trusted cyber-defence partners first through the Fairwind Program. The headline change is the output ceiling. Argon can generate … Read more
China’s embodied-AI field is re-examining its own advantages. The supply chain and data edges it once took for granted are being questioned: many suppliers does not mean fit for embodied use, and large data volume does not guarantee intelligence. As one company puts it, distribution matters more than raw volume. What China needs next is … Read more
Four moves in one day On 20 September, Zhishen Technology announced a Series B round of several hundred million renminbi. The round was led by the UAE’s Stone Venture, with industrial investors including Neusoft, Haopeng Technology and Riying Electronics joining. By June the company had passed 15,000 units in cumulative production, lifted its monthly capacity … Read more
What was a marketing asset became a liability After the Mid-Autumn holiday the humanoid robotics industry in China met something more consequential than another round of online argument. The data-collection dispute that had been building for weeks turned into hard remedial rules from regulators and the capital markets. IPO window guidance for humanoid robot companies … Read more
Recently an anonymous model called Space Bunny has stirred debate among developers. Since its 23 September launch it has held second place on the OpenCode usage chart and at one point topped the OpenRouter usage chart, earning the nickname ‘space bunny’. An anonymous ‘Space Bunny’ model is beating frontier rivals (Source: Zhidx) The model is … Read more
On 23 September, the Qinghai project information network published the bid result for phase one of the Kunlun Lingyi intelligent computing centre project. Shanghai GPU leader Biren Technology won package one with a bid of RMB 174 million. Biren landed a RMB 174 million compute centre order as reven (Source: Zhidx) The phase-one project issued … Read more
Suzhou Woshi Digital Technology says it has closed multiple rounds of financing over the past year. The investors include Sinochem Capital, Haihui Capital, Yiwen Capital, Suzhou Venture Capital, Suzhou New District, Yuanqiao Assets, Hangxin Capital and Demei Chemical, a mix of industrial and financial backers. The proceeds go to iterating its full-stack AI Scientist models, … Read more
SOG Computing, an AI-for-materials company, has closed a tens-of-millions-yuan angel round. Fosun Capital led the round, with the Nantong state AI fund, Yunqi Partners and Zhongying Venture Capital following and Zi Zhu Science Park reinvesting. The funds go to its automated materials R&D pipeline, laboratory build-out, team expansion and pushing domestic high-end materials toward self-reliance. … Read more
On 24 September, according to Fox News, the chiefs of the two leading AI firms warned the United Nations Security Council that fast-moving AI could threaten humanity unless governments and companies keep it under human control. The session came during rising worry about ever more capable systems. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said AI holds … Read more