RayNeo says it has secured the top position in worldwide augmented-reality glasses shipments for the first half of 2026, a result that puts a Chinese brand at the center of a fast-growing but still unsettled hardware category.
World models have become a new focal point for AI developers trying to give software a more durable understanding of space, movement, and physical interaction. QbitAI reported on September 4 that World Labs, the company founded by Fei-Fei Li, released its multimodal world model Atlas on September 2.
Inceptio Technology says it has passed a major threshold in China’s autonomous-trucking sector: more than one billion kilometers of commercial operation.
Li Auto is using its new MEGA Home to present a more aggressive vision of AI-native electric vehicles. The Chinese automaker launched the new generation of its flagship MPV on September 2 with two self-developed Mach M100 smart-driving chips, four LiDAR units, and its Mach VLA 2.0 end-to-end driving model.
Chinese 3D-generation company Hyper3D is moving beyond single assets and toward full digital environments. QbitAI reported that the company has released WorldGen, a model designed to turn one two-dimensional image into an interactive, editable three-dimensional scene.
Moore Threads is using its latest results briefing to argue that a domestic GPU supplier can serve more than conventional model training. Eastmoney, carrying reporting from The Paper, said the Chinese company described a stack that stretches from large-model training and inference to simulation and deployment for embodied, or physical, AI systems.
Chinese robotics developer X Square Robot says it has found a way to reduce a costly bottleneck in training dexterous machines: gathering demonstrations on the target robot itself.
ByteDance and ZTE are preparing to bring the Nubia NaviX Ultra to market in September after the device received China network-access approval. DIGITIMES reported the development on September 2, describing the approval as a regulatory step that clears the path from large-model filing to device certification for the AI smartphone.
Zeroth, a Suzhou-based AI robotics startup, has launched a compact humanoid called Bridge alongside an open developer ecosystem called OpenBridge. RoboticsTomorrow reported that the company introduced both on September 2 and opened global booking for the Bridge Geek Edition. The launch is designed to pair a physical robot with tools for outside developers.
China’s AI drama market is moving from short demonstrations toward production tools built for dozens of scenes, repeated revisions, and team collaboration. QbitAI reported that SkyProduction, known in Chinese as Tiangong Workspace, released a new version on August 31 that brings scripts, assets, storyboards, video generation, and post-production into one workflow.
As smartphone AI shifts from answering a single question to remembering user preferences across time, the industry lacks a common way to test whether those memories are useful, safe, and reliable.
Tencent is trying to turn WorkBuddy from a workplace assistant into a platform other companies can build around. Caixin Global reported that Tencent launched an open platform for WorkBuddy on September 2, opening its underlying agent functions to outside software developers, device manufacturers, and providers of industry applications.
Alibaba Cloud has moved its new human-agent collaboration product into public testing, offering a view of how China’s largest cloud providers are trying to package multiple AI agents into a single enterprise workspace.
Stardust Intelligence has recruited Sun Peng, a researcher with experience in reinforcement learning, agents, and robotics, as Chinese embodied-AI companies place more attention on what happens after a robot base model is trained. 36Kr reported that Sun joined the company on September 2 and will take charge of post-training work for robot reinforcement learning.
Z.ai is taking an unusual step for a Chinese foundation-model developer: it is putting paid AI services inside one of the country’s most familiar consumer-shopping channels. TechNode reports that Z.ai, the overseas brand used by Zhipu, had opened the company’s first official store on Tmall.
Shenzhen has become the setting for a concentrated pitch to international capital, as HSBC, UBS, and Nomura convene investor conferences in the southern technology hub with artificial intelligence, robotics, and other emerging industries prominent on their agendas.
A new version of MiniMax’s video-generation system is pushing generative video toward a format that looks more like live television than conventional rendering. H3 Max, developed by MiniMax with inference provider fal, is being used in experiments where an audience prompt can lead to a newly generated clip while the stream continues.
A new drama created with generative AI has started streaming on Mango TV and airing in Hunan TV’s prime-time schedule, bringing an AIGC production into a mainstream television setting rather than limiting it to a technology demonstration or short online clip.
China’s transportation authorities are turning the broad idea of “AI plus transportation” into a large list of practical tests across roads, railways, waterways, aviation, ports, and postal networks.
Beijing robotics company Galbot is launching its first outlets outside mainland China with three humanoid-operated convenience stores in Hong Kong. South China Morning Post reported on August 31 that the stores, following an opening ceremony, were scheduled to launch on September 1 in Hung Hom, Kai Tak, and Wan Chai.
