Raymuse Technology has announced an angel financing round worth tens of millions of yuan for bibo, a compact non-verbal companion robot. 36Kr reported that Trends Media Group and Hongyi Asset Management Group led the round. Raymuse is the English brand used by Hangzhou Leimeng Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州镭萌科技有限责任公司).
China has formally expanded its job catalog to reflect the growing presence of embodied AI and software agents in the workplace. On September 9, labor authorities issued an update that adds 11 occupations and 23 specialties to China’s existing occupational classifications.
Wuwen AI, whose Chinese name is Wuwen Zhike (无问智科) and which is operated by Zhejiang Wuwen Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd., has announced a Series A financing round worth several hundred million yuan.
Nano-Core Chip, also known as NCC, has announced a 1 billion yuan C1 financing round to support its work on 3D computing-in-memory chips. The Hangzhou company says it is developing a 3D-CIM architecture that combines DRAM-based near-memory computing, SRAM computing-in-memory, and RISC-V heterogeneous computing.
Alibaba.com says its Accio e-commerce agent has passed US$60 million in annual recurring revenue after five months on the market. The business-to-business platform also says Accio has more than 60,000 paid users whose average spending exceeds US$1,000.
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, a compact open-weights language model designed for local deployment, tool use, and agentic workflows. The model has 2,516,756,480 parameters, a 131,072-token context window, and an Apache-2.0 license, according to the OpenBMB model card. The release reflects a different direction from the race for ever-larger frontier models.
China’s humanoid-robot sector has attracted capital, founders, and public-market attention at an exceptional pace. Now it may face a stricter test before reaching an IPO. Chinese regulators have reportedly given informal guidance to some banks and companies that raises the approval threshold for humanoid-robot listings after Unitree Robotics’ volatile market debut, according to Reuters.
Alibaba Cloud is trying to make its AI agents useful beyond Alibaba’s own software. Its updated QoderWake tool lets users create “digital employees” from a single line describing a role, then deploy those assistants inside DingTalk, ByteDance’s Feishu, or Tencent’s WeCom. The cross-platform approach was reported by the South China Morning Post.
JD Logistics has set a five-year automation target covering 100,000 delivery drones, 1 million unstaffed vehicles, and 3 million robots. Together, the targets outline a supply chain with far more machine-led operations.
JD Cloud and Moore Threads have announced a plan that would test how far China’s domestic AI hardware can move beyond isolated deployments. At the 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference on September 9, the partners said they intend to build a 100,000-card intelligent-computing cluster based on Moore Threads’ all-function GPUs.
