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Friday, September 25, 2026

  1. Mifeng Pai Tries Crowdsourcing to Build the Data Behind Physical AI

    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.

  2. Simate Puts an AI Research Loop at the Center of Its Robotics Bet

    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.

  3. Xiaomi Previews a Different Long-Context Design for MiMo-V3

    The preview discussed in this article comes from TechNode’s report on MiMo-V3 and should be separated from the underlying HySparse2 research paper.

  4. Tencent Retires QClaw as WorkBuddy Becomes Its Workplace AI Focus

    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.

  5. Domestic AI Chips Take Center Stage Before the Xi-Trump Meeting

    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.

  6. DeepSeek’s Reported US$1 Billion Run Rate Reopens Its Fundraising Debate

    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.

Thursday, September 24, 2026

  1. AgiBot Signals a Long-Term Malaysia Investment Plan

    AgiBot Innovation has signaled a potential RM1 billion investment in Malaysia by 2035, with a possible 5,000 job opportunities, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

  2. Damao Raises New Funding for AI-Energy Coordination

    Damao Technology, known in Chinese as 达卯科技, has reportedly completed a new financing round of approximately RMB 200 million for software that links AI computing demand with electricity and energy operations.

  3. Li Qiang Puts AI Manufacturing Services at the Center of a Shanghai Visit

    Chinese Premier Li Qiang has again linked artificial intelligence to manufacturing, but his latest Shanghai visit focused on a more practical part of the policy agenda: the shared services that can help companies use the technology.

  4. China’s AI Rollout Runs Into an ROI Reality Check

    Chinese companies are moving more AI projects into production, but many executives say the financial case still falls short.

  5. XIRRA Raises Early Capital for Its Physical AI Model Bet

    A young Chinese physical-AI company called XIRRA says it has completed seed and angel financing worth several hundred million yuan, placing a reported US$500 million valuation on a business built around what it calls a native physical foundation model.

  6. Paxini Takes Its First Formal Step Toward a Mainland IPO

    Paxini has entered the tutoring stage for a planned mainland initial public offering, moving a tactile-sensing and robotics company closer to China’s public markets without yet beginning a formal listing review. The distinction is important. IPO tutoring registration is an early regulatory step, not an approval, a prospectus filing, or a completed flotation.

  7. ByteDance Reworks Doubao’s Chat Teams After Its User Surge

    ByteDance is reportedly changing the organization behind Doubao, its fast-growing AI app, as it shifts resources across chat, monetization, workplace tools, and model post-training.

  8. Baidu Gives Kooko Its Overseas Agent Push

    Baidu is turning an overseas productivity product into a more visible part of its AI strategy. At a September 21 Baidu AI Day event, the company said it would accelerate the international expansion of its AI productivity business and rebrand its overseas product, previously known as Oreate AI, as Kooko.

  9. Alibaba Cloud Draws a New European Data-Center Map

    Alibaba Cloud is planning another expansion of its European footprint, according to a September 23 report by the South China Morning Post. The report describes a one-year expansion window and names three planned markets: Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands. It also discusses added capacity in several places where the company already operates.

  10. DeepSeek Builds a Sandbox Layer for Agent Training

    DeepSeek has described a less visible part of the agent race: the infrastructure needed to let an AI system try tasks safely, repeatedly, and at very large volume.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

  1. Alibaba Wants Qwen Intelligence to Become the Agent Layer for Phones

    Alibaba’s newly announced Qwen Intelligence platform is aimed at smartphone manufacturers. Alibaba Cloud says it is designed to let agents plan tasks, act across applications, and handle complex mobile workflows. The offering is a business-facing platform for device makers, not a claim that every smartphone already has the capability.

  2. Alibaba Cloud Makes Agent Control a Product Layer

    The enterprise AI-agent market is shifting from a simple question, Can a model complete a task?, to a harder one: Can an organization control what happens when it does?

  3. Reported CAC Scrutiny Puts DeepSeek and Moonshot Under a New Lens

    Yahoo Finance, carrying a Stocktwits report citing The Information, says China’s Cyberspace Administration has reportedly examined DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged the companies routed exchanges through its Claude models.

  4. China’s Agent Outlook Puts Its 2030 Total at 197 Million

    A newly released report projects that China’s active AI-agent count could reach 197 million in 2030, from a 2026 estimate of 4.95 million. The headline number is large, but it is not a current count, a government target, or a guaranteed result.