An anonymous model spent ten days as the most used model on OpenRouter, and the company behind it only admitted ownership after it had already been benchmarked to death. On 17 October DeepSeek pushed out V4.1 Flash-1017, an update to the model Chinese developers call the big fat fish. Two days later MiniMax launched M3.1 … Read more
The AI infrastructure boom pushed optics into the centre of the buildout, and the optical chip, the component that converts light into electrons and back, is priced as the next hundred-billion-renminbi market. Each step from 10G to 800G and on to 1.6T and 3.2T raises both the value per chip and the size of the … Read more
Agibot is doing what a company does when the queue stops moving. From 22 October it began publishing seven results across seven consecutive working days, covering datasets, an operations platform, the heavy-load G2 Max, an embodied agent framework called GenieMaster, a simulation platform, a foundation model and a swarm learning method. The backdrop is a … Read more
A-share robot names extended their rally through the afternoon of 26 October. Unitree Technology, trading as 688836, jumped more than 18 per cent intraday to a high of RMB 737.50 a share and pushed its market value past RMB 290 billion at the peak. It closed at RMB 672, up 7.69 per cent, for a … Read more
For 79 days, SK Hynix tried to sell a piece of itself to American public markets. On 23 October it stopped trying, and the share price rose 4.42 per cent. Solidigm was meant to raise USD 10 billion to USD 15 billion on Nasdaq. Source: Sohu Tech At three in the morning that day, the … Read more
On 20 October the 2026 Chery Global Innovation Conference opened in Wuhu. Under the theme Change, the company did not point its cameras at a new model or a specification sheet. It laid out four freedoms: mobility, energy, food and life. Chairman Yin Tongyue was direct about the reasoning. The core value of technological evolution … Read more
Global electric vehicle sales fell 2 per cent year on year to 2.15 million units in September 2026, ending six consecutive months of growth, according to data from UK research firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Europe set a record for a single month, but not by enough to offset clear declines in North America and China. … Read more
Robotaxi has not yet produced an income statement of its own. Elon Musk is already discussing how much money it will make next year. Tesla’s Cybercab is already carrying passengers in Austin. Source: Gasgoo On the 22 October Tesla 2026 third-quarter earnings call, Musk said he expects the robotaxi business to start contributing clearly to … Read more
Open a cupboard, find the blocks hidden inside, then stack them into a bridge. A child manages it. For a robot the task splits into capabilities that live in different models: vision and language following to find the blocks, contact-rich interaction to open the door, geometric planning and fine control to build the span. Vision-language-action … Read more
While humanoid companies argue about form factors on exhibition stands, a Suzhou company has been selling robots into the places where the air is filtered to class 100 and nobody is allowed to watch. Limiaoda Intelligent disclosed this month that its B1 and B2 rounds together raised close to RMB 500 million, with a B3 … Read more