China’s smart-glasses market generated 1.88 billion yuan in revenue during the first half of 2026, up 98.7% from a year earlier, according to data from RUNTO Technology cited in a September 13 36Kr analysis. All-channel sales reached 909,000 units, up 85.5% year over year.
Beijing’s healthcare AI pilot base has announced a biomedicine-manufacturing support program that will provide more than 100 million yuan in computing resources for drug discovery, preclinical research, clinical trials, and associated data work. The initiative was unveiled at a September 12 CIFTIS healthcare forum and reported by CNR on September 13.
The 2026 Inclusion Conference on the Bund has closed in Shanghai with organizers reporting more than 50 first launches or first displays of technologies, products, and applications. China News Service’s September 13 summary says the four-day event, which ended September 12, concentrated on AI agents, embodied intelligence, AI terminals, quantum technology, and fintech.
Z.AI Co., Ltd. has completed a financing package worth about US$5 billion through a new H-share placement and zero-coupon convertible bonds, according to its September 13 HKEX filing and Reuters reporting.
NeuxMind.AI, legally Beijing Xingchen Haoyu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., has introduced Shenshou Agent OS, an enterprise platform designed to train, deploy, operate, and govern what the company calls AI Workers. C114’s CIFTIS report described the product presentation on September 13. NeuxMind brands the platform as ANOS: The Enterprise Agent OS.
Yuanshi Autonomy, an industrial physical-AI company based in Nantong, has completed Pre-A and Pre-A+ financing rounds worth tens of millions of yuan, according to a September 13 36Kr financing report. Dachen Caizhi backed the Pre-A round, while Yuanhe Puhua invested in the Pre-A+ round.
China has proposed creating a BRICS AI open source community to support cooperation on large-language-model development, AI applications, and training across the expanded BRICS grouping.
Shanghai has launched the Mingzhu Plan, a long-term effort to develop a space-based computing constellation that organizers say could eventually reach gigawatt scale.
Two Beijing research institutions have used their second-anniversary event to present eight artificial-intelligence projects spanning industrial software, genomics, materials, molecular design, low-precision inference, physical intelligence, and single-cell biology.
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has opened the all-stack services of Intern InkStone, its scientific-discovery platform, and paired the upgrade with two new models intended to connect scientific reasoning to laboratory work.
