Fengzhushou Co., Ltd. has signed a computing-power service agreement valued at RMB 5,716,992,000, or approximately RMB 5.717 billion, with a customer identified only as D Company. The Shenzhen-listed company, whose stock code is 301382, disclosed the contract in a September 28 announcement filed through CNINFO. The agreement covers comprehensive computing services over 60 months.
Shenzhen Xunce Technology Co., Ltd. has secured shareholder approval for an investment ceiling of up to RMB12 billion to build an AI inference and computing center based on computing power and data.
A robot unveiled at a launch event in Yichang, Hubei Province, on September 28 has placed an otherwise technical question at the center of China’s embodied-intelligence push: how much of the electronic system that connects machine perception, decision-making, and physical action can be built on a domestic technology stack?
Simate has introduced Simate-beta as its first general-purpose physical fast system, according to a QbitAI report republished by 36Kr. The debut places a young Chinese company’s model ambitions squarely in embodied intelligence, where software must connect perception, memory, planning, and physical manipulation rather than only produce text or images.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has placed artificial intelligence inside the operating design of its next five-year development plan, not as a standalone technology theme but as a tool for changing how research is conducted and managed.
A reported Chinese regulatory signal could open a narrow path for ByteDance and Alibaba to buy Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500, but it has not produced a confirmed approval, order, shipment, or deployment. The distinction matters.
China has reportedly widened overseas-travel controls around parts of its private artificial-intelligence and chip industries, with spouses and children of some key executives now expected to seek Beijing’s approval before traveling abroad.
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.
China’s AI push is prompting a closer look at two concerns: how far investors can carry humanoid-robotics valuations, and who may capture the economic gains from faster adoption. A September 26 analysis by the South China Morning Post framed both as potential risks raised by economists and industry leaders.
Chinese President Xi Jinping brought artificial intelligence into his Sept. 24 White House talks with U.S. President Donald Trump through a short proposition: people must retain control of the technology. That message matters less as a new rule than as a way of defining the subject China wants to discuss with Washington.
The formal U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue emerged from President Xi Jinping’s three-day Washington visit as one component of a broader summit package. Its importance, however, lies in what it could become rather than in a completed result.
