SenseTime co-founder and chief scientist Lin Dahua has offered a deliberately conditional forecast: the “emergence moment” for multimodality could arrive within one or two years. KrASIA published its report of the interview on September 17, 2026, under the headline that a multimodal AI breakthrough could come within two years.
Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology is planning a Hong Kong listing that could seek about US$800 million, according to The Economic Times. The report attributes the plan to two people with knowledge of the matter.
XPeng reportedly plans to offer technology to overseas automakers beyond Volkswagen, building on its Volkswagen alliance. TechNode reported the plan on September 18, citing a Reuters report based on two people familiar with the matter. The account describes an effort to find new revenue streams; it does not describe completed licensing transactions.
MiniMax Code is now publicly available as a terminal coding agent whose repository describes it as “An open-source coding agent for your terminal, powered by MiniMax.” That wording on the GitHub repository establishes the project’s own positioning: a command-line agent rather than a standalone model release.
Qwen’s September 18 announcement introduced Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate for real-time simultaneous interpretation. The company says its Interleave architecture connects streaming understanding, text output, and speech generation. Qwen says average lagging, or LAAL, fell from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds. That is a company-reported comparison rather than an independently published benchmark result.
Reuters reports that ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, is preparing to enter the NAND flash market, citing three people with knowledge of the private plans. Reuters describes CXMT as a DRAM specialist, meaning that the reported initiative would extend beyond the company’s publicly identified memory focus.
Xiaomi is publicly showing reinforcement-learning training for two unreleased models, MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, rather than limiting the project to a conventional announcement after training has concluded. TechNode reported on September 18 that the company’s MiMo team is operating a public dashboard for the two runs.
Ant International announced an AI-native product stack for global businesses spanning payments, accounts, foreign exchange, treasury, and growth operations. In a September 18 press release distributed through PR Newswire (news provided by Ant International), the company called it its largest-ever product upgrade, with close to 100 key products across four business pillars.
Beijing-based Spirit AI has set a target date for a proposed embodied-AI capability: converting a spoken request into physical actions a robot can reasonably attempt. In a September 18 report, Reuters said Gao Yang, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, expects a “GPT-3.0 milestone” by mid-2027.
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language model aimed at reading contrast-enhanced CT scans of the abdomen. According to the South China Morning Post, the system covers 18 abdominal organs and is designed to identify nearly 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers.
