Zhihu plans to commit 1.5 billion yuan to an AI-focused private-equity fund, a move that would give the Chinese question-and-answer platform a limited-partner position in early- and mid-stage technology investments. The proposal is disclosed in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing and remains subject to shareholder approval.
Shenzhen HQVT Technology will become eligible for mainland investor access through Hong Kong Stock Connect after entering the Hang Seng Composite Index on September 7.
Bilibili’s first AI Creation Open has offered a large-scale snapshot of how generative tools are changing who can build digital products in China. The company said its competition received more than 30,000 submissions from 13,400 creators, with more than 80 percent of participants working alone.
A Guangzhou district is testing whether the digital exhaust of an AI business can help it qualify for a bank loan. Haizhu District has introduced Token Loan, a financial product that uses token consumption, API-call records, computing-power contracts, and receivables as evidence when banks assess credit for asset-light AI companies.
Doctors at the Sixth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital have reported using an AI-powered ultrasound robot to guide a transcatheter procedure for congenital heart disease, an advance that places imaging, planning, and navigation inside a single robotic workflow.
China’s Ministry of Public Security has launched a new anti-scam service built around large language models, multimodal AI, and agent technologies, expanding the country’s use of artificial intelligence in public-facing fraud prevention.
HuaYan Robotics will enter Hong Kong Stock Connect on September 7, giving mainland investors a direct route to trade the Hong Kong-listed robotics company just days after it announced a new embodied-intelligence control platform.
Researchers at one of China’s leading defense-technology universities have proposed reshaping a graduate AI course around combat scenarios and uncrewed warfare, a sign of how military education is adapting to the country’s wider interest in intelligent operations.
China’s largest technology companies are preparing to spend much more on AI infrastructure, but a new Moody’s analysis reported by the South China Morning Post argues that the country will still trail the United States by a wide margin in absolute capital expenditure and data-center power.
A newly published New York Times investigation has renewed scrutiny of how a Chinese technology group that appears on a U.S. trade blacklist remained connected to supplies of advanced American computing equipment.
Anthropic’s Claude has been used to produce a computer-verifiable formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem, a milestone that connects a major U.S. AI lab with a researcher trained in China’s most prominent computer-science program.
Shenzhen’s Longgang District has turned a local commercial corridor into a test case for AI service delivery. People’s Daily reported on September 5 that the district opened what local authorities describe as China’s first AI Service Street on September 4, linking research and development, application scenarios, industrial support, and services for businesses and residents.
Beijing is bringing generative models, genomic tools, automation, and humanoid robotics into the same agricultural showcase. Xinhua reported on September 5 that the 33rd China Beijing Seed Industry Congress, held in Fengtai from September 4 to 5, featured more than 600 technology achievements from 138 research institutions, seed companies, and service providers.
China’s experiment with AI-generated drama has reached a more visible stage. South China Morning Post reported on September 5 that Later Journey to the West premiered on Hunan TV on August 31 as the first fully AI-generated long-form series to run in a prime-time slot on a major Chinese satellite broadcaster.
China’s listed companies produced their strongest profit growth in years during the second quarter, but the results were not enough to sustain a market rally in AI-related stocks. Bloomberg reports that a China International Capital Corp.
China is putting small and medium-sized enterprises at the center of its next industrial AI push.
Guangxiang Technology is proposing a different role for world models in industrial robotics: use one to train the robot, then remove it before the robot goes to work.
Feidu Tech, known in Chinese as 飞渡科技, has used Beijing’s HICOOL entrepreneurship competition to position itself as a Chinese contender in spatial intelligence and Physical AI.
Alibaba says its workplace-agent product QwenWork has reached more than 30 million users within its first month, giving the company a new deployment metric in China’s increasingly competitive market for enterprise AI tools.
China’s energy system is becoming a major test bed for artificial intelligence at the same time that it is becoming the world’s largest solar-power base by installed capacity.
