China’s smart-glasses market generated 1.88 billion yuan in revenue during the first half of 2026, up 98.7% from a year earlier, according to data from RUNTO Technology cited in a September 13 36Kr analysis. All-channel sales reached 909,000 units, up 85.5% year over year.
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.
Z.AI Co., Ltd. has completed a financing package worth about US$5 billion through a new H-share placement and zero-coupon convertible bonds, according to its September 13 HKEX filing and Reuters reporting.
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.
China has proposed creating a BRICS AI open source community to support cooperation on large-language-model development, AI applications, and training across the expanded BRICS grouping.
Shanghai has launched the Mingzhu Plan, a long-term effort to develop a space-based computing constellation that organizers say could eventually reach gigawatt scale.
Two Beijing research institutions have used their second-anniversary event to present eight artificial-intelligence projects spanning industrial software, genomics, materials, molecular design, low-precision inference, physical intelligence, and single-cell biology.
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.
China’s competition for AI talent is reaching into the internship market, where the most exceptional candidates are reportedly being offered daily pay far above ordinary student jobs.
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.
China’s AI infrastructure debate has been dominated by models, chips, and data centers. A new report from the China Telecom Research Institute argues that the next pressure point will be token consumption as AI agents execute more tasks and generate far more inference traffic.
China Mobile has introduced a product called AI Trusted Computing, or AITC, as Chinese companies look for ways to run AI workloads on sensitive data without treating security as an afterthought. The launch took place on September 12 at the 2026 China Computing Power Conference in Langfang.
Huawei has demonstrated a new optical-interconnect design it says can move 7.2 terabits of data per second, putting a less visible part of AI infrastructure into the spotlight. Huawei unveiled the 7.2T NPO prototype at Shenzhen’s China International Optoelectronic Exposition on September 10.
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?
