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
China has approved its first mandatory national safety standard for L3 and L4 autonomous driving, setting a unified bar for vehicles that can drive themselves. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s standard, Safety Requirements for Autonomous Driving Systems of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, was formally approved on 30 July and takes full effect on … Read more
On 3 August Alibaba opened public beta for QwenWork, its enterprise agent product, folding together QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong into one entry for local desktop control, long cloud tasks and team collaboration. It ships alongside Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba’s new flagship: 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion active per inference, a 1-million-token context and vision. In a … Read more
On 28 July, 360 founder Zhou Hongyi launched Nano Work, an enterprise agent platform aimed at business owners, founders, one-person companies and employees — what he calls a ‘super organisation.’ Before shipping, 360 used itself as the lab: it ran agents like OpenClaw across more than 1,000 real internal scenarios, collected over 56,000 feedback items, … Read more
Canchen Tech (CANCHEN TECH) has closed a seed-to-angel series of rounds worth tens of millions of yuan, with investors including Orient Securities Capital, SongHe Capital, Tsinghua-based funds and TusStar, the company told Leiphone. It is building a system-level virtual-organ simulation platform — digital twins spanning molecule, cell, tissue and organ — to replace parts of … Read more
Three tiers of pain The penalty structure runs in three bands. Use of banned, unacceptable-risk AI can draw up to 35 million euros or 7 per cent of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Most compliance and regulatory breaches, including those for general-purpose model providers under Article 101, reach 15 million euros or 3 per … Read more
From 1% to 69% Citing the ATOM report, the essay notes that Alibaba’s Qwen rose from about 1 per cent of new open-model fine-tuning and adaptation in January 2024 to 69 per cent by February 2026. The US still holds the lead in closed systems from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, but its startup ecosystem has … Read more
The US has issued another ban, this time aimed at robots. On 29 July the Federal Communications Commission placed foreign-produced advanced mobile robots on a controlled list, effective immediately, with exceptions only for products granted conditional approval by the US Department of War. Two words matter: ‘foreign-produced’ and ‘advanced robot equipment’. The FCC defines the … Read more
Alibaba’s AI investing has become a structure: model companies return equity value, rising compute demand feeds Alibaba Cloud orders, and a memory bottleneck is met with an upstream stake. It resembles the group’s old playbook, except today it backs interdependent, sometimes competing, firms. The history is consistent. A 2017 DAMO Academy with a 15 billion … Read more
Xiaomi has restructured its AI around the MiMo base model, splitting the technology behind its decade-old voice assistant XiaoAI into three pillars: the MiMo base-model team led by Luo Fuli, the cloud engineering team led by Luan Jian, and the on-device OS capability pushed down into the phone and car teams. The move signals that … Read more