Alibaba’s DAMO Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language model aimed at reading contrast-enhanced CT scans of the abdomen. According to the South China Morning Post, the system covers 18 abdominal organs and is designed to identify nearly 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers.
Manus is reportedly pursuing a US$500 million financing round at a US$4 billion valuation, a proposed transaction that would put a fresh number on one of the most unusual corporate stories in the China-founded AI-agent market. The financing has not closed. Its terms remain under discussion, and new investors have not been identified publicly.
Chinese AI models may be spreading quickly, but a new Rhodium Group comparison suggests their developers are still generating far less recurring revenue than the two largest U.S. frontier labs. Rhodium estimates the annual recurring revenue, or ARR, of China’s AI model businesses at about US$10.7 billion on the latest available 2026 data.
China’s AI hiring is expanding rapidly on Maimai’s recruiting platform, but the most useful signal in its latest report is not the headline growth rate. It is the type of work employers are listing.
Moonshot AI has launched a financial-services solution for Kimi that combines professional data connections, task-specific workflow tools, and enterprise controls for institutional users.
D-Robotics has completed a US$400 million Series C round, giving the Chinese company fresh capital to expand its Sunrise chip portfolio and the software layers it says are needed to develop and deploy AI robots.
Z.ai says it used a GLM-5.3-powered infrastructure agent to help take GLM-5.3-Flash from initial hardware adaptation to a production inference service running on more than 100,000 Chinese-made AI accelerators. The September 17 technical account is not a new model release.
A search option linked to Alibaba’s Qwen model briefly appeared on the U.S. Federal Register website before being removed on September 17, turning an otherwise technical feature into a sharp illustration of the political sensitivity surrounding Chinese AI models in American public systems.
Alibaba has added Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to its Model Studio catalog, documenting a hosted model that accepts text, images, audio, and video while producing text responses.
Huawei has moved its Ascend 960DT schedule forward to the first quarter of 2027 while setting out its most detailed public specifications yet for an up-to-4,096-NPU computing system.
Huawei announced a 3D Data Center architecture at the 2026 AIDC Industry Development Conference in Wuhu, Anhui, on September 15. Chinese media reported the release on September 16, with Guangming Daily noting the key elements highlighted by the company. Huawei characterizes the design as the world’s first 3D Data Center architecture.
China’s official newspaper People’s Daily published a September 16 commentary under the authoritative byline Zhong Sheng rejecting U.S. allegations related to AI-model distillation and stating that the claims lack factual and legal basis. The piece used a title translated as Politicizing Technical Issues, the Old Routine of U.S.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced the city’s First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development on September 16. Covering 2026 to 2030, the plan includes 105 indicators and is intended to align with China’s 15th Five-Year Plan.
Shenzhen Sight Tower Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (视塔机器人) disclosed a Pre-A financing round on September 16, with the amount not made public. The English name used here follows the English-name field in a Qichacha corporate record. The contemporaneous Chinese reports call the company 视塔机器人 and do not identify a separate English commercial brand.
Beijing Shihe Technology Co., Ltd., known internationally as RobotPlusPlus, announced a Series C financing round as part of a global disclosure on September 16. Chinese coverage first reported the round on July 21, so the September disclosure is an international announcement rather than a new closing on that date, according to GlobeNewswire.
Shanghai Zaofu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., the autonomous-driving business associated with Hello, announced a financing round of about US$100 million on September 16.
Suzhou Senwan Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. (苏州森丸电子技术有限公司) completed a 100-million-yuan financing round labeled Series A in reports published September 15 and 16. The round was reported as co-led by Glory Ventures and an unnamed participant from the optical-module industry, with Shunrong Capital and Jiarui Capital participating, according to 36Kr.
China has added a new public resource to its effort to secure trusted Chinese-language material for large-model development. The Cyberspace Administration of China announced on September 16 that the Chinese Internet Base Corpus 4.0 and two related datasets were released during National Cybersecurity Week in Jinan, Shandong, the day before.
A three-month-old Beijing AI startup has raised nearly 400 million yuan by betting that the next competitive advantage in model development will be a system that improves its own research process. Chaoyan Intelligence, or Chaoyan Zhineng, announced angel and angel-plus rounds on September 16, according to 36Kr.
ByteDance’s effort to take artificial intelligence beyond content platforms and consumer software has produced a large new financing event in drug development. Anew Labs, an AI drug-discovery company spun out of ByteDance, completed a US$290 million first independent round, according to Reuters.
