ByteDance and ZTE are preparing to bring the Nubia NaviX Ultra to market in September after the device received China network-access approval. DIGITIMES reported the development on September 2, describing the approval as a regulatory step that clears the path from large-model filing to device certification for the AI smartphone.
China has used an international workshop in Hangzhou to frame artificial intelligence as a potential public good for chemical safety and for implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Zeroth, a Suzhou-based AI robotics startup, has launched a compact humanoid called Bridge alongside an open developer ecosystem called OpenBridge. RoboticsTomorrow reported that the company introduced both on September 2 and opened global booking for the Bridge Geek Edition. The launch is designed to pair a physical robot with tools for outside developers.
China’s AI drama market is moving from short demonstrations toward production tools built for dozens of scenes, repeated revisions, and team collaboration. QbitAI reported that SkyProduction, known in Chinese as Tiangong Workspace, released a new version on August 31 that brings scripts, assets, storyboards, video generation, and post-production into one workflow.
As smartphone AI shifts from answering a single question to remembering user preferences across time, the industry lacks a common way to test whether those memories are useful, safe, and reliable.
Tencent is trying to turn WorkBuddy from a workplace assistant into a platform other companies can build around. Caixin Global reported that Tencent launched an open platform for WorkBuddy on September 2, opening its underlying agent functions to outside software developers, device manufacturers, and providers of industry applications.
Alibaba Cloud has moved its new human-agent collaboration product into public testing, offering a view of how China’s largest cloud providers are trying to package multiple AI agents into a single enterprise workspace.
The hard part of training a large language model is not limited to chips and algorithms. It also includes the work of collecting, cleaning, organizing, tracing, and revisiting enormous volumes of data.
Stardust Intelligence has recruited Sun Peng, a researcher with experience in reinforcement learning, agents, and robotics, as Chinese embodied-AI companies place more attention on what happens after a robot base model is trained. 36Kr reported that Sun joined the company on September 2 and will take charge of post-training work for robot reinforcement learning.
Z.ai is taking an unusual step for a Chinese foundation-model developer: it is putting paid AI services inside one of the country’s most familiar consumer-shopping channels. TechNode reports that Z.ai, the overseas brand used by Zhipu, had opened the company’s first official store on Tmall.
China’s large-model companies are beginning to show what customers will pay for, even if neither has solved the profitability question. A September 3 DIGITIMES report compared the first-half results of MiniMax and Z.ai, the overseas brand of Zhipu.
Alibaba has issued a new snapshot of its flagship Qwen3.8-Max model, focusing the update on the kinds of tasks that determine whether a model can move from answering questions to helping complete work.
MiniMax has become a conspicuous test of mainland China’s appetite for listed AI developers. Bloomberg reported that southbound investors bought HK$10.6 billion, or about US$1.4 billion, of the company’s shares through Stock Connect during August.
China’s largest internet companies are spending heavily on artificial intelligence while accepting a near-term hit to cash flow. UBS sees a different stage of the cycle ahead.
China’s latest campaign against misuse of artificial intelligence has produced a set of enforcement figures that show how quickly content moderation has become part of the country’s AI rollout.
