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The September 12, 2026 brief

  1. Cambricon Delivers Day-One Support for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

    Cambricon Technologies (中科寒武纪科技股份有限公司) says it completed Day-0 adaptation of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on the vLLM inference stack, allowing the model to run on Cambricon accelerators on the same day DeepSeek released it.

  2. Ant Afu Expands AI Health Support for China’s Village Doctors

    Ant Afu, an AI health-management application associated with Ant Group, is extending its rural-healthcare program through training, software support, and new tools for village and family doctors.

  3. Baidu Extends China’s AI Talent Race Into Scholarships

    Baidu has opened its 2026 Scholarship cycle with 10 research awards of 200,000 yuan each, placing early-stage researchers at the center of a wider competition among China’s technology companies for future AI talent. The program is not a conventional entry-level recruiting drive.

  4. A Zhuhai AI Agent Enters Public Beta for Home Sales

    E-House has opened a public beta in Zhuhai for E-House Xiaoxin, an AI-assisted service intended to guide property buyers and sellers through parts of the home-sales process. The test is notable because it places an AI agent inside a transaction category where the practical work extends beyond answering questions.

  5. Douyin Tests AI Apps in Its Main Recommendation Feed

    Douyin is testing a tool designed to turn its recommendation feed into a distribution channel for small interactive AI applications. The feature, called AI Workshop, is still in limited invitation-only internal testing.

  6. Ant Opens a Payment Protocol for AI Agents Across Asia

    Ant International has open-sourced a protocol intended to let AI agents operate within mobile-payment systems, moving the company beyond the familiar role of a wallet provider toward the harder task of defining how software agents can be identified, authorized, and constrained when money is involved.

  7. China Sets a 2028 Target for AI Software and Agent Adoption

    China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued an “AI + Software” Special Action Implementation Plan that puts explicit milestones around the use of artificial intelligence in the country’s software sector.

  8. Kinetix AI Raises More Than 500 Million Yuan for Physical AI

    Kinetix AI has completed an Angel+ funding round exceeding 500 million yuan, a large early-stage investment for a company built around humanoid robots, data collection, and embodied-AI systems.

  9. Z.AI Launches a US$5 Billion Hong Kong Fundraising

    Z.AI has launched a proposed US$5 billion Hong Kong financing package that would give the former Zhipu AI a much larger pool of capital for computing infrastructure, research and development, and possible strategic acquisitions. The deal is not yet a completed fundraise.

  10. Enflame Soars 179% in Its Shanghai Market Debut

    Enflame Technology’s first day as a public company gave China’s domestic AI-chip drive a visible market test. Shares in the Tencent-backed accelerator designer closed at 397 yuan on September 11, up 179% from their 142.18-yuan issue price, after opening at 410 yuan.