A code completion task returns 8. Add a few irrelevant tokens to the front of the same prompt and the same model returns 32. ByteDance’s Seed team documented the pattern in late September, and the follow-up question is whether it still reproduces on the shipping model. The phenomenon is real, the cause is architectural, and … Read more
Walk through any Chinese technology trade show and the crowd is around the full-size humanoids. The units that are actually reaching consumers, however, are small enough to sit next to a monitor. Desktop robots have become a quiet side line for embodied AI companies, and the category is defined loosely: an embodied system, a desk … Read more
While the humanoid industry argues about when the technology will be deployable, a parallel business has already formed downstream and is growing faster than the builders themselves. It rents robots by the day, the week or the event. Ask a so-called robotics company whether it is still hiring test engineers and the answer increasingly comes … Read more
At half past seven on the evening of 2 November, a product nobody can see went into the shopping cart of China’s most-watched livestream. The item was a monthly membership for Qwen Office, Alibaba’s workplace AI product, priced at one fen and limited to one per new account. It sold 100,000 units in half an … Read more
Beijing’s securities regulator accepted an IPO coaching filing from Huixi Technology on 28 October, putting a four-and-a-half-year-old chip designer on the path to an A-share listing with CITIC Securities as sponsor. The company was founded in April 2022. The filing documents a rare thing in Chinese semiconductors: a strategic pivot that appears to have worked, … Read more
China Mobile has finished evaluating its 2026-2027 procurement of next-generation artificial intelligence supernode equipment, and the result is a single-country supply chain. The tender closed on 2 November with a total of 20,480 accelerator cards, 448 RoCE switches and 82 storage systems split between five bidders. The headline value is RMB 58.2 billion. The five … Read more
OPmobility published third-quarter results showing economic revenue of EUR 2.763 billion, up 1.6 per cent year on year at constant exchange rates on a comparable basis, with consolidated organic growth of 2.8 per cent, ahead of the global car market. By segment, exterior and lighting revenue was EUR 1.266 billion, driven mainly by Eastern Europe … Read more
The one-millionth 11-in-1 integrated powertrain domain drive system rolled off the line at Grebor’s Xuzhou plant, the company said. The system integrates the drive motor, motor controller, reducer and on-board charger, along with seven other core components, inside a single housing. It combines high integration with low weight and a low centre of gravity, and … Read more
Xinlian Dongli has completed a Series C round of nearly RMB 2 billion, led by China Mobile’s industrial chain fund, with a group of industrial and financial investors participating. The investor list includes Inspur Information, Yuanjing Capital, Sinopec’s hydrogen fund, NAURA Nuohua Capital, Jiangfeng Electronics, Changzhou Xingyu, Cathay Capital, Puchao Capital, CCB Equity, CITIC Jinshi, … Read more
October sales reports arrived on 1 November. BYD sold 490,200 vehicles, up 11 per cent and its best month of the year. Leapmotor delivered 106,000, its fourth consecutive month above 100,000. Geely and Chery both beat last year, and XPeng and Xiaomi each crossed 50,000. And yet the passenger car association had forecast October retail … Read more