On 22 August at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, the opening of the second World Humanoid Robot Games, cameras cut to a real tennis court. A humanoid stood inside it, and against incoming balls travelling above 50 kilometres an hour it judged the bounce, moved its feet, turned its body and swung, the … Read more
At Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui on 22 September, Qualcomm unveiled two flagship chips built on a 2nm process: the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme and the Snapdragon 8 Elite. It is the first time the company has launched two Elite-tier platforms together, and the first time the Snapdragon line has used a 2nm node. … Read more
DeepSeek is close to sealing a new financing round of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and the battery maker CATL among the largest backers, according to a Bloomberg report published on 6 October. DeepSeek Is Closing a RMB 80 Billion Round as It Lines Up a (Source: Zhidx) The terms already signed suggest … Read more
On 5 October, the five-day 2026 (18th) Shenzhen International Automobile Exhibition and Intelligent-Connected and Future-Mobility Expo closed at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre in Futian. According to the organiser, the show drew about 420,000 visitors, took 14,759 vehicle pre-orders and reservations, and booked nearly RMB 2.8 billion in transactions, lifting citywide consumption over the … Read more
A second raise in three months On 8 September Guangdong Tianji Intelligenz System Co said it had closed a B++ strategic financing round co-led by Ant Group and Sofina Asia Private, with existing backers Gaorong Capital and Tencent following on. Haohu Capital acted as the exclusive financial adviser, and the proceeds are earmarked for research, … Read more
On 15 September, at the 2026 Embodied Perception Fusion and Multimodal LLM Innovation Seminar, Zhu Jie, vice president of Chaowei Dynamics, shared how to build a data system for general-purpose embodied intelligence. A Start-up Is Building the Data Plumbing That General-Purpos (Source: Gasgoo) The breakthrough in general embodied intelligence does not rest on a single … Read more
AI is moving from generating a picture that looks real to understanding space, predicting change and executing action. At ECCV 2026 that trend was impossible to miss. Why Spatial Intelligence Became AI’s Route Into the Physical (Source: LeiPhone) The programme chair reported 10,473 submissions with 2,834 accepted. By topic, image and video synthesis led with … Read more
One model-architecture diagram featured both Kimi and DeepSeek at once. The GLM-5.3-Flash project config uses 34 layers of Kimi’s KDA linear attention and 11 layers of DeepSeek’s KPool-DSA sparse attention across its 45 layers. Kimi and DeepSeek Showed Up in the Same Model Architecture (Source: LeiPhone) This year a clear shift appeared in large-model architectures: … Read more
Huawei’s self-developed optical engine Hi-ONE has surfaced at its first landing point, a kilo-card-scale supernode. At a recent optoelectronics expo, HiSilicon showed the engine’s bandwidth of up to 7.2 terabits and said Hi-ONE would enter the next-generation supernode in NPO (near-packaged optics) form. Huawei calls it the world’s first AI compute supernode to use NPO. … Read more
Looking back to late 2024, when he entered embodied intelligence with consumer-robot experience, LeShare founder and chief executive Guo Renjie joked he may not have realised how hard the industry would be. An Ant-Backed Founder Born in 1997 Just Priced a Humanoid Un (Source: Zhidx) Guo was born in 1997, entered the Xi’an Jiaotong University … Read more