SCMP reports that Zheng Yongnian argued the United States and China face limits in trying to disentangle their artificial intelligence ecosystems, and that preventing AI competition from spiraling into a new cold war should be a priority.
WhalesBot announced EliteMind in Shanghai on Sept. 23, 2026. A PR Newswire page posted the following day describes it as a modular Physical AI robot for elementary and middle school students, designed to connect AI lessons with physical tasks.
Beijing Xuannv Technology Co., Ltd. announced on September 24, 2026, the public release of a geospatially embedded spatiotemporal base model named Xuannv Earth together with a supporting China-region embedded-vector dataset, as reported by 36Kr.
iFLYTEK Co., Ltd. announced Spark-ASR-2.0 on September 23, 2026, and said the model would begin a staged rollout in iFLYTEK Input Method beginning September 24, 2026. IT之家 reported the announcement and attributed technical descriptions and performance claims to company material.
Mifeng Technology launched Mifeng Pai on September 23, 2026, according to 36Kr; China Securities Journal and Gasgoo independently reported the launch and corroborated selected product details. 36Kr reported the workflow and pilot disclosures, while the secondary reports supplied additional hardware, task, scenario, and internal-test details.
Simate, a recently formed robotics startup, says its AutoResearch system connects model modification, data and configuration changes, training, evaluation, and subsequent experiment decisions as part of its physical-AI research workflow, according to the 36Kr/Zhidx report.
The preview discussed in this article comes from TechNode’s report on MiMo-V3 and should be separated from the underlying HySparse2 research paper.
Tencent Holdings Ltd. announced plans to retire the QClaw assistant and concentrate product effort on its flagship workplace AI agent, WorkBuddy, in reporting circulated on September 24, 2026.
Chinese technology announcements from Huawei Technologies and Alibaba Group landed in the news cycle just ahead of Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States and drew immediate attention from investors, analysts, and U.S. officials weighing technology and trade policy.
Sina published a market note on September 24 that attributed an accelerated annualized revenue run rate at DeepSeek to recent pricing moves and product demand, and also described a planned second financing round and preparations for a Shanghai or STAR Market listing.
