DapuStor, a Chinese maker of enterprise solid-state drives and data-center storage products, plans to seek a Hong Kong listing after reporting a sharp first-half recovery. Its board has authorized a proposed Main Board float in Hong Kong through H shares, while leaving the offering’s timing and size for later approvals and filings.
Bill Gates is seeking a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss a global approach to AI risks, including the possibility of monitoring whether models can help design harmful molecules or enable biological attacks.
Z.ai has ended speculation around Ox Alpha, an anonymous model that had climbed online usage charts under a stealth label. The Chinese AI company confirmed that the system is GLM-5.3-Flash, a new member of its GLM family that it says was tested quietly before its formal release.
Alibaba has opened an international public beta of QwenWork, a workplace AI-agent platform that it says can research topics, prepare documents, create applications, operate websites, and work with local files.
China’s industry ministry says the country now has close to 200 core standards covering artificial intelligence. The number is less a single policy announcement than a measure of how much technical and governance work is being assembled around AI’s spread into factories, research teams, quality-control systems, and public-facing services.
China’s AI infrastructure race is usually described in terms of graphics processors, data centers, and power supply. Mucang is betting that another layer will become equally important: the network chips that allow thousands of accelerators to exchange data fast enough to work as a useful cluster.
NIO is testing a different route into embodied intelligence: allow its senior autonomous-driving leader to form an independent venture, retain him in his current job, and back the new company as a strategic shareholder.
Insilico Medicine has reported its first profitable half-year as a public company, giving one of China’s best-known AI drug-discovery firms a new commercial marker in a field often defined by long research timelines and costly clinical risk.
MiniMax’s latest financial results show a Chinese AI company becoming more dependent on enterprise customers even as it continues to spend heavily on the models and infrastructure behind its products.
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Flash, a new multimodal model that it says is designed to make coding and office work less expensive to serve.
