On 3 August Alibaba opened public beta for QwenWork, its enterprise agent product, folding together QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong into one entry for local desktop control, long cloud tasks and team collaboration. It ships alongside Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba’s new flagship: 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion active per inference, a 1-million-token context and vision. In a … Read more
On 28 July, 360 founder Zhou Hongyi launched Nano Work, an enterprise agent platform aimed at business owners, founders, one-person companies and employees — what he calls a ‘super organisation.’ Before shipping, 360 used itself as the lab: it ran agents like OpenClaw across more than 1,000 real internal scenarios, collected over 56,000 feedback items, … Read more
Canchen Tech (CANCHEN TECH) has closed a seed-to-angel series of rounds worth tens of millions of yuan, with investors including Orient Securities Capital, SongHe Capital, Tsinghua-based funds and TusStar, the company told Leiphone. It is building a system-level virtual-organ simulation platform — digital twins spanning molecule, cell, tissue and organ — to replace parts of … Read more
Xiaomi has reorganised its AI around MiMo, its in-house base model, folding the XiaoAI assistant’s tech into three pillars: the MiMo model team led by Luo Fuli, cloud engineering under Luan Jian, and on-device OS work pushed into the phone business. The move matters because MiMo is no longer an optional model. As Xiaomi’s ‘human-car-home’ … Read more
A Chinese yard-robot company just made the case that lidar, not RTK, is the profitable path for robotic mowers — and that the real competition is no longer the sensor, but the shelf. Naisilao Intelligent Technology, whose brands MOVA and NexLawn sell lidar mowers, paused an RTK prototype back in 2022 because satellite signals drop … Read more
In July 2026, Nature published a breakthrough: a UC San Diego team had doctors teleoperate a Unitree G1 humanoid to perform two laparoscopic gallbladder removals on live pigs — the first time a general-purpose humanoid did the main steps of standard laparoscopic surgery on a living subject. The trigger was Elon Musk. After his April … Read more
At WAIC 2026, Yuanli Lingji drew a crowd with an unusual demo: four desktop arms and two wheeled Apex robots worked 15 hours to assemble a 3.5-metre-by-1.5-metre Great Wall model from nearly 82,000 micro-blocks, some under 1 centimetre, at sub-millimetre precision. The point was not the toy. Founded by Tang Wenbin, co-founder and former CTO … Read more
Roland Berger’s new report, “Humanoid Robots 2026: The Convergence Moment of a New Market,” marks a shift in the debate. The question is no longer whether humanoids are a bubble, but who grabs the position if the industry actually takes off. Three variables converged at once. AI capability — vision-language models, generative AI, edge computing, … Read more
Leverage met a crowded trade Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund, peaking near 45 billion dollars in assets and running about 4x leverage, was forced to sell roughly 16 billion dollars of public equities to Citadel on 30 July, with assets collapsing to about 10 billion in a self-reinforcing spiral that dragged down its own holdings. … Read more
Memory-chip giants have reported record results on the back of AI-driven price surges, yet their shares sold off, a split that captures a supercycle now balanced at a crossroads between real demand and priced-in perfection. Record numbers, priced for perfection Kioxia’s first quarter to June showed revenue up 415.5 per cent year on year and … Read more