China Proposes AI Public Goods for Chemical Safety
China has used an international workshop in Hangzhou to frame artificial intelligence as a potential public good for chemical safety and for implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Thursday, September 3, 2026
Zeroth Launches Bridge and the OpenBridge Robot Platform
Zeroth, a Suzhou-based AI robotics startup, has launched a compact humanoid called Bridge alongside an open developer ecosystem called OpenBridge. RoboticsTomorrow reported that the company introduced both on September 2 and opened global booking for the Bridge Geek Edition. The launch is designed to pair a physical robot with tools for outside developers.
SkyProduction Builds an End-to-End AI Drama Workflow
China’s AI drama market is moving from short demonstrations toward production tools built for dozens of scenes, repeated revisions, and team collaboration. QbitAI reported that SkyProduction, known in Chinese as Tiangong Workspace, released a new version on August 31 that brings scripts, assets, storyboards, video generation, and post-production into one workflow.
OPPO Sets a New Benchmark for On-Device AI Memory
As smartphone AI shifts from answering a single question to remembering user preferences across time, the industry lacks a common way to test whether those memories are useful, safe, and reliable.
Tencent Turns WorkBuddy Into an Open Ecosystem
Tencent is trying to turn WorkBuddy from a workplace assistant into a platform other companies can build around. Caixin Global reported that Tencent launched an open platform for WorkBuddy on September 2, opening its underlying agent functions to outside software developers, device manufacturers, and providers of industry applications.
Alibaba Cloud Opens Wanyou Wujie to Enterprises
Alibaba Cloud has moved its new human-agent collaboration product into public testing, offering a view of how China’s largest cloud providers are trying to package multiple AI agents into a single enterprise workspace.
Ant Group’s OmniTable Wins a VLDB Industrial Award
The hard part of training a large language model is not limited to chips and algorithms. It also includes the work of collecting, cleaning, organizing, tracing, and revisiting enormous volumes of data.
Stardust Adds a Reinforcement-Learning Specialist
Stardust Intelligence has recruited Sun Peng, a researcher with experience in reinforcement learning, agents, and robotics, as Chinese embodied-AI companies place more attention on what happens after a robot base model is trained. 36Kr reported that Sun joined the company on September 2 and will take charge of post-training work for robot reinforcement learning.
Z.ai Opens a New Consumer Sales Channel on Tmall
Z.ai is taking an unusual step for a Chinese foundation-model developer: it is putting paid AI services inside one of the country’s most familiar consumer-shopping channels. TechNode reports that Z.ai, the overseas brand used by Zhipu, had opened the company’s first official store on Tmall.
API Demand Rewrites the MiniMax and Z.ai Revenue Story
China’s large-model companies are beginning to show what customers will pay for, even if neither has solved the profitability question. A September 3 DIGITIMES report compared the first-half results of MiniMax and Z.ai, the overseas brand of Zhipu.
Qwen3.8-Max Gets a September Upgrade for Coding and Agents
Alibaba has issued a new snapshot of its flagship Qwen3.8-Max model, focusing the update on the kinds of tasks that determine whether a model can move from answering questions to helping complete work.
Mainland Investors Make MiniMax a Stock Connect Favorite
MiniMax has become a conspicuous test of mainland China’s appetite for listed AI developers. Bloomberg reported that southbound investors bought HK$10.6 billion, or about US$1.4 billion, of the company’s shares through Stock Connect during August.
UBS Sees China’s Big Tech AI Payoff in Sight
China’s largest internet companies are spending heavily on artificial intelligence while accepting a near-term hit to cash flow. UBS sees a different stage of the cycle ahead.
China’s AI Content Crackdown Reaches New Scale
China’s latest campaign against misuse of artificial intelligence has produced a set of enforcement figures that show how quickly content moderation has become part of the country’s AI rollout.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Shanghai Launches a STAR Market AI Applications Index
The Shanghai Stock Exchange and China Securities Index Co. are launching a new benchmark for companies that build or deploy artificial intelligence applications, giving investors a defined way to follow part of China’s listed AI economy. The SSE STAR Market AI Applications Selected Index, code 950398, is scheduled for release on September 2.
Xi Uses the SCO Summit to Renew China’s AI Diplomacy
Xi Jinping has proposed an international cooperation center for AI applications for members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, placing artificial intelligence alongside development, security, and regional connectivity in China’s diplomacy toward Eurasian and Global South partners. The proposal came at the SCO heads-of-state meeting in Bishkek on September 1.
New Calls Test the Window for U.S.-China AI Safety Talks
A new public call for U.S.-China cooperation on AI safety is testing whether leaders can turn a shared concern about advanced systems into a workable diplomatic channel.
Global Investors Look to Shenzhen’s AI and Robotics Market
Shenzhen has become the setting for a concentrated pitch to international capital, as HSBC, UBS, and Nomura convene investor conferences in the southern technology hub with artificial intelligence, robotics, and other emerging industries prominent on their agendas.
Foreign Funds Turn Toward China’s AI Hardware Stocks
Foreign institutional investors increased their disclosed holdings of mainland Chinese shares sharply during the second quarter, with companies tied to the AI supply chain among the sectors drawing attention.
MiniMax Brings Three-Second AI Video to Livestreaming
A new version of MiniMax’s video-generation system is pushing generative video toward a format that looks more like live television than conventional rendering. H3 Max, developed by MiniMax with inference provider fal, is being used in experiments where an audience prompt can lead to a newly generated clip while the stream continues.