Rokid has put a new generation of AI glasses in front of the public as the company prepares a formal launch. The company’s second-generation AI glasses made their global debut at the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou on September 24, where reporting described them as display-equipped, full-function glasses.
China’s financial institutions are moving AI agents from demonstrations toward bounded business work, with examples spanning cross-border settlement, credit due diligence, research, trading support, and enterprise risk management.
Alibaba Cloud used its 2026 Apsara Conference to present AI agents as a coordinated device ecosystem, extending beyond a single model or application. The lineup covered an agentic computer, glasses, earbuds, a note-taking device, smartphone software, and partner integrations.
A September 28 AIDC Daily/BUPT research briefing, drawing on recent academic papers and external energy analysis, highlights a constraint that can be easy to miss in the race to add AI capacity: servers are only one part of the infrastructure equation.
Cailian Press’s Venture Capital Tong, citing its Zhizhong data, counted 143 domestic financing events across sectors during September 19–25. The tracked deals carried approximately 8.337 billion yuan in disclosed aggregate financing, according to Cailian Press.
Aishida (爱仕达) is preparing a humanoid robot for a retail-store assignment that will put customer interaction, product guidance, and promotional work under public scrutiny.
MiniMax has added a new model called M3.1-Flash-Preview to MiniMax Code, its coding assistant, in a rollout that remained narrowly documented as of September 28. The model appeared in the product’s model picker, rather than arriving with a broad public release package that included technical specifications, benchmark results, or token pricing.
China’s orbital AI ambitions gained a new private-sector proposal on September 25, when Oriental Starlink Spacetime Intelligence (Shandong) Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Diwei-2 Space Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. jointly announced the Space String computing constellation. The companies said construction had formally begun at an event held at the Hangzhou International Expo Center.
Shanghai Business and Information College has added artificial intelligence data engineering technology as one of three new majors in 2026. The other additions cover building restoration and reinforcement work and applications for unmanned aircraft. The change puts a named AI-related field inside one vocational institution’s curriculum.
Hangzhou hosted an open-source AI competition that put a specialized scientific problem before a global developer audience. At the Global Open-source AI Challenge (GOAI) finals and awards ceremony on September 22–23, ExpLoop Lab won the top prize for a computational approach to mirror-peptide design.
