Hangzhou smart-jewelry brand SHAKESPEARE has secured Angel financing in the tens-of-millions-of-yuan range to build AI-enabled rings around a difficult consumer promise: that a wearable can support emotional interaction without being mistaken for a medical or psychological authority.
China’s competition for AI talent is reaching into the internship market, where the most exceptional candidates are reportedly being offered daily pay far above ordinary student jobs.
Beijing has upgraded a Shijingshan facility that collects data for humanoid robots, relaunching it under the name Shijingshan Embodied Intelligence Training Center. The first phase of the site, previously known as the Shijingshan Humanoid Robot Data Training Center, was presented in its updated form during the China International Fair for Trade in Services.
A group of Beijing hospitals, health-technology organizations, telecom entities, and AI institutions has used the China International Fair for Trade in Services to announce a new AI-health collaboration.
China’s AI infrastructure debate has been dominated by models, chips, and data centers. A new report from the China Telecom Research Institute argues that the next pressure point will be token consumption as AI agents execute more tasks and generate far more inference traffic.
China Mobile has introduced a product called AI Trusted Computing, or AITC, as Chinese companies look for ways to run AI workloads on sensitive data without treating security as an afterthought. The launch took place on September 12 at the 2026 China Computing Power Conference in Langfang.
Huawei has demonstrated a new optical-interconnect design it says can move 7.2 terabits of data per second, putting a less visible part of AI infrastructure into the spotlight. Huawei unveiled the 7.2T NPO prototype at Shenzhen’s China International Optoelectronic Exposition on September 10.
Huawei’s next AI deployment is not a general chatbot or a data-center product. It is a model built around Xi’an’s historical material and used to create tourism content, guides, merchandise, and travel recommendations. Nikkei Asia reported that Huawei developed the BoGuan Cultural Tourism Large Model with Shaanxi Culture Industry Investment Group, a regional partner.
Xieyue Intelligence (斜跃智能), a young startup, has announced an Angel+ round worth several hundred million yuan for a project that places the home, not the factory floor, at the center of embodied AI.
UBTech Robotics has opened a factory in Liuzhou that is designed around a question China’s humanoid-robot industry has not yet answered at scale: can a company build useful machines repeatedly, rather than only demonstrate them?
