Alibaba Cloud is widening the definition of an AI video prompt. Its newly launched Wan3.0 model can generate video clips of up to 30 seconds not only from text and images but also from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages.
Artificial intelligence is usually framed as a question of models, chips, and automation. A new exhibition in Belgrade offers a different entry point: what happens when AI is placed alongside an art form rooted in brushwork, paper, and centuries of cultural practice?
The most consequential number in China’s humanoid-robot competition may not be a sprint time or a benchmark score. It may be the price at which a machine can perform useful work.
Banks are beginning to treat artificial intelligence less as a customer-facing novelty and more as an engineering capability. CITIC BaiXin Bank has released a white paper, prepared with Baidu as a technology partner, on building an AI-native approach to software development.
A Beijing AI company is making the case that the next phase of artificial intelligence will be decided less by polished conversation and more by whether systems can support high-stakes industrial decisions.
China’s competition regulator has offered a consequential test of what can count as proprietary technology in an AI business.
Taiwanese prosecutors have turned a chip-control concern into a detailed criminal case. Nine people were indicted over the alleged illegal export of artificial-intelligence servers to China, according to a Reuters report carried by the Taipei Times.
China is moving from showcasing humanoid robots to defining the rules by which they will be measured, integrated, and governed. A consultation document issued by China’s industry ministry sets a 2028 goal of no fewer than one hundred major standards for the humanoid-robot sector.
XPeng has drawn a sharp financial line between its car business and its aspirations in humanoid robotics. The Chinese automaker said its robotics unit, Dogotix, raised more than US$900 million in its first funding round, at a valuation above US$6.3 billion.
Xiaomi has moved its chip program from a promised next step to a three-part product roadmap. On Aug. 24, the company unveiled the Xuanjie O3 smartphone processor, the O100 AI accelerator, and the D100 processor for autonomous-driving workloads.
