Tencent upgraded Marvis from AI assistant to AI butler around four agents—PC, file, browser and software—citing about 92% PC-task completion and planned user-built butler skills. Tencent released a ...
At Apsara 2026, Alibaba debuted Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate with LAAL latency cut from about 2.8 to 2.3 seconds and unveiled the Qwen-Audio-3.1 family spanning ASR, TTS, Realtime and TTS-Next cinematic ...
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness, an MIT-licensed agent runtime in developer preview where models, tools, sessions, sandboxes and UI are Cordis plugins, with npm packages advancing through the ...
XPeng is pushing its self-developed Turing AI silicon beyond intelligent EVs into humanoid robots as part of a Physical AI stack, with IRON configurations cited at about three on-device Turing chips ...
Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro commercializes LogicFolding under Tao's Law, raising transistor density about 55% and cutting power ...
Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? China ships most of the world's humanoids, but analysts say the milestone is task generality—not demos—until robots do ~80% of novel jobs from ...
PIF-backed HUMAIN launched an Arabic frontier model on MiniMax's open MoE stack—showing how sovereign AI projects are turning Chinese open weights into national starting points. HUMAIN-M3 keeps M3's ...
From face-ID feeders to spectral litter boxes, Chinese makers are turning pet gear into multimodal health monitors—and exporting the category at double-digit growth. China's smart pet category is ...
Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Chinese startup Direct Drive argues the bottleneck for embodied robots is not a smarter brain but physical access to the real world, pairing ...
How the Inner Mongolia city of Ulanqab used cheap green power and low latency to become one of Asia-Pacific's fastest-growing AI compute clusters. The Inner Mongolia city of Ulanqab, set on grassland ...
On August 20, Alibaba Qwen released Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI agent foundation model for real devices covering phones, desktops, web, and deep search. Trained and evaluated on real hardware, it reads ...
In August, robots again filled the halls of the 2026 World Robot Conference: humanoids danced, fought, grasped, and sorted; ...