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.
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.
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.
Hangzhou smart-jewelry brand SHAKESPEARE has secured Angel financing in the tens-of-millions-of-yuan range to build AI-enabled rings around a difficult consumer promise: that a wearable can support emotional interaction without being mistaken for a medical or psychological authority.
Beijing has upgraded a Shijingshan facility that collects data for humanoid robots, relaunching it under the name Shijingshan Embodied Intelligence Training Center. The first phase of the site, previously known as the Shijingshan Humanoid Robot Data Training Center, was presented in its updated form during the China International Fair for Trade in Services.
A group of Beijing hospitals, health-technology organizations, telecom entities, and AI institutions has used the China International Fair for Trade in Services to announce a new AI-health collaboration.
Huawei’s next AI deployment is not a general chatbot or a data-center product. It is a model built around Xi’an’s historical material and used to create tourism content, guides, merchandise, and travel recommendations. Nikkei Asia reported that Huawei developed the BoGuan Cultural Tourism Large Model with Shaanxi Culture Industry Investment Group, a regional partner.
Xieyue Intelligence (斜跃智能), a young startup, has announced an Angel+ round worth several hundred million yuan for a project that places the home, not the factory floor, at the center of embodied AI.
UBTech Robotics has opened a factory in Liuzhou that is designed around a question China’s humanoid-robot industry has not yet answered at scale: can a company build useful machines repeatedly, rather than only demonstrate them?
Ant Afu, an AI health-management application associated with Ant Group, is extending its rural-healthcare program through training, software support, and new tools for village and family doctors.
E-House has opened a public beta in Zhuhai for E-House Xiaoxin, an AI-assisted service intended to guide property buyers and sellers through parts of the home-sales process. The test is notable because it places an AI agent inside a transaction category where the practical work extends beyond answering questions.
Douyin is testing a tool designed to turn its recommendation feed into a distribution channel for small interactive AI applications. The feature, called AI Workshop, is still in limited invitation-only internal testing.
Ant International has open-sourced a protocol intended to let AI agents operate within mobile-payment systems, moving the company beyond the familiar role of a wallet provider toward the harder task of defining how software agents can be identified, authorized, and constrained when money is involved.
China’s AI venture market remained busy in August, but the money disclosed in deals fell sharply from the previous month. A September 10 analysis by 36Kr, citing Xiniu Data, counted 313 AI investment and financing events during August 2026 and 35.159 billion yuan in disclosed funding.
A September 10 update on a Chinese traffic-technology company offers a useful look at where AI is being applied beyond chatbots and model releases: the timing of urban traffic signals.
China’s embodied-AI race is increasingly focused on a less glamorous but decisive input: the volume and quality of robot data. AgiBot has released GE-Act 2.0, a world-action model for robotic manipulation that it says was trained from random initialization on embodied data.
A newly formed Chinese physical-AI startup has raised an unusually large seed round before publicly defining a robot product. TechNode reports that IDG Capital led PHYMI’s nearly US$100 million financing, joined by Hesai Technology, DiDi, Yunqi Capital, Fosun RZ Capital, and Glory Ventures.
JD.com’s latest AI release is designed less like a video generator and more like a place a user can move through. At its JDDiscovery-2026 event, the company unveiled and open-sourced JoyAI-EchoWM, an interactive audiovisual world model, alongside a lighter streaming version called EchoWM-Flash.
