Sharpa has disclosed more than 4.5 billion yuan in funding and is pairing that unusually large sum with a visible commercial test: a Dairy Queen restaurant in Shanghai where a robot is expected to prepare Blizzard ice cream orders.
A Chengdu robotics company is sending a distinctly Chinese form of urban automation into European streets: compact delivery vehicles that carry food, groceries, and logistics orders without a driver. China Daily reported that thousands of Level 4 autonomous delivery robots made by Youngs Tech are now operating in Europe.
China’s five-year legal-education plan places artificial intelligence and big data inside public governance to help citizens understand the law. The 2026–2030 program will, according to Xinhua, introduce AI and big-data tools to tailor public legal education and make it more interactive.
Hong Kong is moving artificial intelligence into one of its most visible public-service channels. The city’s Digital Policy Office has announced four planned AI projects for 1823, the government platform that handles public inquiries and complaints.
Manycore Tech is trying to turn a two-dimensional generative-AI workflow into a three-dimensional production system. TechNode reported on August 28 that Manycore had introduced Lux3D the prior day while starting trials of a future system for modeling interactive environments.
Baidu has launched a benchmark that shifts the question for AI agents away from whether they can write a persuasive response and toward whether they can complete a piece of work.
Tencent’s latest model release is not merely another entry in China’s crowded open-weight market. The company has put a much larger system, Tencent Hy4 preview, into public release while wiring it directly into its existing workplace, coding, consumer, cloud, and developer products.
Moonshot AI is reportedly exploring a route to global enterprise users through the very U.S. cloud platforms that sit at the center of Washington’s technology competition with China.
China has released a dataset containing more than 2,500 hours of real-world operational records from the second World Humanoid Robot Games, creating a new source of material for researchers and companies working on embodied AI.
The second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing were designed to show what machines can do, but the event also became a test of the digital infrastructure needed to manage them.
China’s embodied-AI investment boom is increasingly tied to universities, laboratories, and professors who are turning research programs into companies. Fudan-linked Moushen Intelligence is one example. A new IT Orange analysis published by 36Kr said the company’s August Pre-A+ fundraising carried a disclosed value of 500 million yuan.
China’s embodied-AI companies can build impressive machines, but they still face a basic training problem: robots do not have an internet-sized stock of real-world experience waiting to be downloaded.
A new Beijing start-up is betting that the next bottleneck in Chinese artificial intelligence will not be the supply of any single processor, but the difficulty of making many different processors work together. Bolun Zhihui, an AI infrastructure company established in April, has completed a tens-of-millions-of-yuan angel round, according to Zhidx.
Renesas Electronics has opened a Physical AI & Robotics Lab in Beijing, placing the Japanese chipmaker inside one of the world’s most active markets for industrial and humanoid robotics. The facility will be used for system demonstration, validation, and joint development of next-generation robotic systems, according to Renesas’s August 27 announcement.
Alibaba Cloud has opened two data centers in Brazil, creating its first cloud region in the country and extending the Chinese technology group’s AI infrastructure campaign into South America. SCMP reports that the Brazilian operation will provide local cloud infrastructure and agentic-AI services to businesses, emerging companies, programmers, and public institutions.
Hong Kong’s financial regulators are moving the city’s generative AI experiment from small-scale banking trials toward a wider test of how autonomous systems could be used across finance. The opening Sandbox++ group includes 36 selected use cases involving banks, securities firms, insurers, pension institutions, and technology partners.
Shanghai chip startup Xijian Technology has raised nearly 500 million yuan across three financing rounds in its first year, according to a Cailian Press report. The company develops brain-inspired vision chips designed to extract useful visual information with much lower power and data-transfer requirements than conventional image pipelines.
DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for a fundraising round that would put an extraordinary price on the ability to develop models and secure the computing needed to run them.
Nvidia is making a public case that the world’s fastest-growing open artificial intelligence ecosystem should run well on its technology, even when many of the models come from China.
DapuStor, a Chinese maker of enterprise solid-state drives and data-center storage products, plans to seek a Hong Kong listing after reporting a sharp first-half recovery. Its board has authorized a proposed Main Board float in Hong Kong through H shares, while leaving the offering’s timing and size for later approvals and filings.
