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Editor’s Note: There is no shortage of technology news, yet many promising Chinese startups still remain largely unknown to global audiences. At the same time, the constant flow of funding news, product launches, and new technologies makes it harder to see which companies truly deserve attention.
Huawei today held its autumn product launch event in Shanghai, unveiling the Mate 90 series. The series includes five models: the Mate 90, Mate 90 Pro, Mate 90 Pro Max, Mate 90 Pro Max Collector’s Edition, and Mate 90 RS Ultimate Design. Prices range from RMB 5,999 ($895) to RMB 12,999 ($1,939).
BYD plans to hold an overseas launch event for its Yangwang luxury vehicle brand, the company said in a record of its September 29 shareholder meeting. It did not give a date or location for the event.
ByteDance is reportedly testing a personal AI assistant tied to Doubao and plans to release it as a standalone app. The product has been given the tentative Chinese name Xiaodou (小豆), according to a report cited by IT Home.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is entering OpenAI’s enterprise Codex channel through US inference provider Baseten. Enterprise customers can count use of the Chinese model against their existing OpenAI spending commitments.
Meituan made LongCat-2.5-Preview available through its API platform on September 25, adding image understanding to the company’s AI model lineup. The new model can answer questions about images, summarize visual content and handle more complex visual reasoning tasks, according to its documentation.
AITO opened presales for the updated M8 SUV on September 30, with prices starting at RMB 389,800 ($54,700). The new model comes with Huawei’s ADS 5 driver-assistance system and a vehicle architecture designed with future Level 3 automated driving in mind.
Ant Group’s InclusionAI has launched Ling-3.1-flash, a language model with 560 billion total parameters and about 25 billion activated for each token. The company is positioning it for agent tasks, search, office software and specialist applications.
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.
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