Every frontier release from Silicon Valley now lands on the Indian market like a precision-guided quake. Across the first half of 2026, more than 23bn dollars in foreign money fled, dragging foreign ownership to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen fourteen years ago. The Nifty IT index, India’s answer to the Hang Seng Tech … Read more
On 31 July, OpenAI cut API prices across the GPT-5.6 family. The steepest cut hits Luna, down 80 per cent, input to $0.2 per million tokens, output to $1.2. The balanced Terra model drops 20 per cent, input $2, output $12 per million. The flagship Sol holds its price but gains a Fast mode running … Read more
Zeng Yi, founder of Shenzhen-based processor IP firm Sunzhan, speaks softly with a Teochew lilt, but on AI and RISC-V his excitement is uncontainable. His thesis: AI has toppled the old processor order, and RISC-V is the arch it drags forward. When the model decides the chip ‘The decision power over chip architecture has moved … Read more
XtalPi Science is billed as the world’s first AI-for-Science platform integrating LLMs, agents and automated experiment robots, packaged as on-demand ‘Science Tokens.’ Genius Agents orchestrate cross-disciplinary long-horizon tasks, cutting hallucination and closing a loop from digital hypothesis to physical verification. The failure-data edge XtalPi’s chief scientist Zhang Peiyu notes the platform’s rarest asset is failure … Read more
Not alone Alibaba and Tencent moved within weeks. Alibaba consolidated three agent lines, QoderWork, Wukong and MuleRun, under QoderWork, led by DingTalk’s Chen Yusen. Tencent moved QClaw into the unit that houses WorkBuddy. All three stopped internal horse-racing and converged on one AI front door. Why the rush On the surface it is cost control. … Read more
The round, from Xingzheng Capital and Yidao Capital, funds next-generation vehicle-grade autonomous solutions. Alongside it, Sinnol announced it is moving beyond ports into open-road heavy logistics. Why ports first Founder He Bei chose ports in 2020 for their high digitalisation and labour cost, easier to prove autonomy’s value. Reality was harder: unmanned trucks must mix … Read more
Seeing more clearly Huawei stays on multi-sensor fusion, recently shipping distributed millimetre-wave radar, high-resolution solid-state lidar, a lidar-vision unit called Limera, and an 896-line dual-path lidar. The point is cross-verification: when one sensor degrades in fog, glare or occlusion, the others keep reading the road. Understanding the world Beyond perception, Qiankun moves to the WEWA … Read more
Xiaomi has restructured its AI around the MiMo base model, splitting the technology behind its decade-old voice assistant XiaoAI into three pillars: the MiMo base-model team led by Luo Fuli, the cloud engineering team led by Luan Jian, and the on-device OS capability pushed down into the phone and car teams. The move signals that … Read more
Xiaomi has released and open-sourced Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, which it calls the first unified generative model for embodied AI, and the bottleneck it targets is the one everyone agrees on but few have solved: robot training data. Language models drank from the internet; robots have no equivalent “physical-world internet.” Useful data, vision, action and state together, mostly … Read more
The shift at WAIC 2026 was not in any single product but in the script. Past editions debated what humanoid robots were even for. This year the answer was stacked on the booths: humanoids moving totes in warehouses around the clock, picking among 3,000 pharmacy SKUs, putting a Coke in the fridge and a dirty … Read more