The most valuable asset in AI search may be the plumbing rather than the answer. Tencent upgraded its Yuanbao search on 20 October and opened it to individual developers and enterprises through Tencent Cloud as an API. Behind it sits an index the company describes as reaching a hundred billion scale, built from public web … Read more
A drone the size of a hand and about as heavy as a smartphone has now flown faster than a Formula One car, and the margin over the previous record is not close. Xu Yang, an undergraduate at the School of Science and Engineering and Morningside College at CUHK-Shenzhen, set a new Guinness World Record … Read more
Teaching a humanoid to fold a towel currently requires a robot, an operator and an afternoon. A team at Peking University has proposed deleting the robot from that sentence. The bottleneck is post-training. Pretraining gives a model a baseline competence, but the ceiling is set afterwards, and for embodied systems that means correction: watching a … Read more
Moonshot AI has not launched anything. The model’s name appeared in a teaser video, in an API config file, in a code editor menu, and then in an arena leaderboard under a codename, and the benchmarks people are running against it already tell a story. The trail started in late September, when developers found a … Read more
Nvidia’s favourite cloud customer is now the clearest test of whether the AI build-out can pay for itself. CoreWeave, the neocloud that borrows against GPU fleets and contracted compute orders, has been hit on both sides of its capital structure. Its shares fell more than 23 per cent in eight trading days and sit 55.7 … Read more
The most valuable company in physical AI may turn out to be one that does not build robots at all. General-purpose models are now being tested as robot controllers. Recent work around GPT-6 Astra and comparable systems shows models that can interpret complex instructions, identify objects and plan the next operation, including recovering when a … Read more
At a trade fair with more than 400 robot exhibitors, the demo that drew a crowd was not a better gripper or a tighter tolerance. It was three machines handing work to each other. Zhongke Diwuji showed a relay at the 26th China International Industry Fair: three Jiling-L1 wheeled dual-arm robots took turns depalletising, pouring … Read more
A Beijing embodied-AI startup has open-sourced a robot world model that runs on RGB alone, and it is topping benchmark tables built by researchers who assumed depth was mandatory. Wujie Dongli published MWA-Phoenix, a fully pretrained 7B parameter latent world model designed for on-device deployment. The company reports leading results across six evaluations covering environment … Read more
The awkward truth about humanoid robots in Chinese factories is that most of them arrive at sites nobody is willing to shut down for a retrofit. AgiBot, the Shanghai embodied-AI company known in Chinese as Zhiyuan, built its newest machine around that constraint. The Genie G2 Max, launched on 26 October under the company’s AI … Read more
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