From platform to physical world Yu joined Zhongguancun Kejin as president in September 2024 and is credited with productising its large-model platform and capturing the enterprise opportunity of ‘platform plus application plus service’, improving the company’s product capability, business scale and visibility. His departure marks another senior operator stepping from internet platforms and scaled AI … Read more
Shenzhen has launched what its backers call China’s first thousand-qubit-scale quantum computing power platform, a step they say moves the country’s quantum effort from technical validation toward something industry can actually use. On 3 August, the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong, Quantum Science Center, the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, and Entropec, Shenzhen, Technology unveiled the … Read more
Xiaomi has reorganised its AI around MiMo, its in-house base model, folding the XiaoAI assistant’s tech into three pillars: the MiMo model team led by Luo Fuli, cloud engineering under Luan Jian, and on-device OS work pushed into the phone business. The move matters because MiMo is no longer an optional model. As Xiaomi’s ‘human-car-home’ … Read more
Calls and downloads ‘Calls’ mean individuals who lack local deployment pay per token to use a model online. ‘Downloads’ are organisations, banks, governments and energy firms pulling models in to embed in their own systems, the core ‘AI plus’ indicator, and China leads there as well. Across Africa, with 1,500 to 3,000 languages, many local-language … Read more
On 28 July, the Cyberspace Administration of China, together with the cyberspace offices of Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Shenzhen and five leading large-model firms, launched the AI Large-Model IPv6 Capability Enhancement Initiative in Xiong’an. The goal is to push generative large-model applications to fully support IPv6, laying the network foundation for the intelligent era. As … Read more
The 2026 Artificial Intelligence Product Application Expo opens on 30 July at the Suzhou International Expo Center, with nearly 400 hardcore exhibitors gathered under one roof. Beyond domestic large models, the show covers embodied-AI robots across full scenarios — a telling sign of where China’s AI commercialisation push is heading: not models alone, but models … Read more
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, China’s embodied-AI zone was full of robots making coffee, taking photos and dancing. Sudo Tech’s booth drew crowds for the opposite reason: its robots quietly did unglamorous things — grasping objects, wrapping items in cloth with two hands, inserting parts into matching holes — with conspicuous stability, success rates and … Read more
Date Round Amount Key Investors Aug 13, 2019 Strategic Tens of millions RMB CAS Star, Tsinghua University Asset Management, Fortune Capital, Huakong Fund, Jiangmen VC, Turing Ventures Sep 14, 2021 Series A Hundreds of millions RMB Luster LightVision, Xinglian Capital (Z Fund), Beijing Dafan, Tongzhi Investment, Xingtang Tongzhi, Rongpin Investment Sep 26, 2022 Series B … Read more
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin presenting Kimi Chat’s long-context model capabilities. After DeepSeek, another Chinese model has rattled the United States. On July 22, four things happened in a single day. Michael Kratsios, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, publicly accused Moonshot AI on X of “large-scale distillation” of American … Read more