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Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. Wang Dongsheng has already spent one career proving that a Chinese company could compete in one of the technology industry’s most capital-intensive businesses.
ByteDance’s AI assistant Doubao is reportedly accelerating work on a new personal AI agent. According to sources, the project began internal testing as early as April and was previously known internally as Spell.
smart previewed engineering details for its upcoming all-electric smart #2 at a Beijing workshop on Sept. 28, ahead of the model’s world premiere at the Paris Motor Show on Oct. 12. The two-seat car is built on a purpose-designed Electric Compact Architecture for vehicles under 3 meters long.
Developers reportedly spotted a “kimi-k3-1” identifier in Moonshot AI’s API model registry, alongside a preview indicating a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The surfaced information also pointed to several reasoning levels, though the details have not been confirmed.
LatePost reported that Xiaomi’s September promotion list elevated Luo Fuli, who leads the company’s MiMo large-model team, to level 22. A person familiar with Xiaomi told the outlet that level 22 is the company’s highest rank.
AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the AI research lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. World Labs develops spatial-intelligence models that generate, reconstruct and simulate interactive 3D environments.
Tencent is recruiting closed-beta testers for Goose Dimension, a product described in local reports as an AI game companion. It reportedly supports voice chat and can recognize game screens to respond to what is happening in a game.
China shipped more than 19,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, accounting for 77.9% of global shipments, according to figures attributed to IDC. Global shipments reached nearly 25,000 units, up 432.1% year over year.
Insta360 is experimenting with smart glasses and developing two mirrorless cameras as it expands beyond 360-degree cameras. Co-founder Max Richter told The Verge that the glasses would focus on making it easier to capture high-quality images, rather than competing on AI assistant features.
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. On Sept. 23, SenseTime launched SenseMart OS at its Shanghai headquarters, positioning it as a physical operating system for retail.
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. When photovoltaic panels develop defects such as hot spots, physical damage, dust buildup, or other obstructions, workers have traditionally had to inspect them one by one, often at height.
The data upload controversy surrounding ZCode, an AI coding tool developed by Zhipu AI, is now moving toward a resolution. On Monday, Zhipu AI announced that ZCode had completed its technical remediation.
AI-generated video is no longer anything new. But a 100-minute theatrical feature film that uses AI throughout the production process and has secured an official screening license shows how far AI filmmaking has come.
NIO and Geely Holding Group have announced definitive agreements covering their charging and battery-swapping businesses. Geely will contribute its 100% stake in Yiyi Internet Technology and RMB 640 million in cash to subscribe for new shares in NIO Power.
China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 20% year on year and accounting for 59% of global installations, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China remained the world’s largest industrial-robot market for a second consecutive year.
The iPhone 18 Pro series reportedly sold nearly 1.3 million units in China during its first seven days, according to market blogger RD Observation. The estimate would equal about 115% of the iPhone 17 Pro series’ sales over the same period and around 90% of the entire iPhone 17 series.
Montage Technology has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DDR5 Registering Clock Driver chip, or RCD05, for high-performance RDIMM memory modules used in data centers and AI servers.
Huawei’s Ascend Tribe has released the pretraining, supervised fine-tuning and post-training reinforcement-learning code for its openPangu-2.0 model family. The code is designed for Huawei’s Ascend-based training ecosystem.
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