Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab has published RoboHarness, a system built to solve a problem the robot field keeps hitting: it has plenty of capable models and almost no way to make them cooperate. RoboHarness wraps VLA, world-action, reinforcement-learning and task-and-motion-planning policies in a coding agent that decides which one should act. The design leaves every … Read more
Nvidia is still the runaway leader in AI chips, and roughly 80 per cent of the world’s AI is trained on its CUDA stack. But the one thing Nvidia fears just showed up on Huawei’s roadmap: a performance cadence that could close the gap faster than expected. At Huawei Connect, deputy chairman and rotating chief … Read more
A brain-inspired world model claims better navigation with far less data On 14 September Shanghai-based EBKernel released Cog-WM 1.0 at a brain-inspired embodied intelligence forum it hosted during the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum, described as the first dedicated forum on the topic. Cog-WM raised navigation success on HM3D from 78.50 to 86.89 per cent against … Read more
Huawei’s Guo Ping: a 1.4bn-person market sustains us, supply chain should learn from Apple, AI must become Nvidia Fast Technology reports that Huawei’s internal “Heart Voice” community recently published the full minutes of a discussion between board supervisor Guo Ping and new employees. Across nearly 10,000 words, Guo gave plain-spoken replies on artificial intelligence, large-model … Read more
A Shanghai lab says stop brute-forcing compute, and built a brain-inspired world model for robots China’s embodied-AI crowd is starting to ask whether pumping more data and compute is the whole answer, and a Shanghai lab just bet it is not. At the Pujiang Innovation Forum on 14 September, EBKernel launched Cog-WM 1.0, a brain-inspired … Read more
D-Robotics closes a USD 400 million Series C as Horizon’s robotics arm bets on the compute floor China’s robotics builders are about to get a great deal more silicon underneath them, and the capital is arriving from Seoul and the Gulf as much as from Shenzhen. On 17 September, D-Robotics, the robotics-computing arm spun out … Read more
On 15 September, Guangdong’s Digital Government and Data Bureau released the “Guangdong Greater Bay Area Data Special Zone Work Plan”, targeting a cross-border data industry above RMB 200 billion by the end of 2028, with related value-add in manufacturing and services exceeding RMB 1 trillion. Bordering Hong Kong and Macao, Guangdong is a national digital-economy … Read more
On 11 September, Enflame listed on the STAR Market, jumping 179.22 per cent on debut to a RMB 170.8 billion market cap. With Moorc and Muxi on the STAR Market and Biren in Hong Kong, China’s GPU “four dragons” have all reached public markets, worth about RMB 613.2 billion combined. It is a milestone for … Read more
Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA) and Seres have responded to a change in how the AITO brand is run. Product definition, product design, brand marketing, channel retail and after-sales service will be led by Seres, with Huawei’s consumer unit contributing enablement. HIMA confirmed AITO’s new operating model on 15 September. (Source: Chedongxi) AITO remains part … Read more
A new round of consolidation among China’s state-owned carmakers has actually started. On 14 September, GAC Group said it had signed a letter of intent with FAW Car Co to buy part of a joint-venture vehicle company held by FAW through a share issue, alongside a supporting fundraising. GAC confirmed the FAW share deal in … Read more