Guangzhou-based Shenhai Zhiren announced a 500 million yuan Series A financing round on August 13, according to both Pandaily and Zhidx. The company, founded in 2020, builds full-stack deep-sea robots and has been outlining a product path that mixes autonomous systems with subsea engineering tools, as described in the two reports.
Agentic artificial intelligence is moving from concept to hands-on experimentation in electronic design automation, with both global providers and Chinese EDA vendors stepping into the arena.
As conversational AI becomes a common gateway for information, a new layer of risk is emerging for China’s investors. Caixin reports that generative engine optimization, often called GEO, is being examined as a route through which online content can influence chatbot responses, including in investor communications.
A preprint by Shanmu Jin, titled The Numerical Range Is a 2-Spectral Set, states that it proves Crouzeix’s conjecture, placing a striking claim in the public record. The manuscript was submitted August 6 and posted August 7, and its page explicitly notes that it is not peer-reviewed.
A new note from Citi Research, reported by the South China Morning Post, models a full China United States AI decoupling as an extreme scenario that could put up to 9.2% of China’s exports at risk.
SCALEFORCE has secured new financing to advance what it describes as embodied-intelligence data infrastructure, with PEdaily’s report, republished by Sina reporting that the raise totals in the tens of millions of yuan.
VUI Labs’ Luna-TTS sits atop a pair of closely watched voice AI leaderboards in a recent snapshot, with the model ranking first in the overall Hugging Face TTS Arena rating and third in Artificial Analysis’ Provider Voice TTS ranking as captured on August 13.
Guangdong’s provincial government has entered a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Alibaba in Guangzhou, a move that places computing power, chips, and artificial intelligence at the center of a broad collaboration.
DeepSeek has opened the Harness Developer Preview and made its code available under the MIT license, according to 36Kr’s authorized Tencent Tech report. The preview went live on the evening of August 13 Beijing time, with the company presenting an early look at a system designed for autonomous, agent-style workflows.
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3 for cybersecurity and coding on August 14, 2026, positioning the update as an iteration built on the same base model as GLM-5.2 with improvements credited to post-training. According to the company’s official research post, the release introduces new behavior controls and aims to raise performance on security-focused tasks.
Chinese companies are using AI-generated micro-dramas to expand a fast-moving form of mobile entertainment into the United States market, according to Caixin Global.
Shanghai chip designer Kiwimoore has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering at a targeted valuation of about US$2 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter cited by Reuters reporting.
Tencent has joined a US$400 million funding round for Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI software-creation platform, giving one of China’s largest internet companies a new stake in the global market for tools that help non-specialists build applications.
A new bar in Beijing’s Zhongguancun district is treating access to an AI model as part of its hospitality offering. The AGI Bar lets customers connect through its Wi-Fi and access or configure DeepSeek V4 Flash, which the venue runs on two Nvidia supercomputers, according to the South China Morning Post.
Microsoft’s China strategy is increasingly defined by two movements in opposite directions. The company has shut at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, according to corporate filings reviewed by Reuters reporting.
China has placed artificial intelligence inside its new national intellectual-property blueprint for the rest of the decade. The 15th Five-Year Plan for intellectual property protection and utilization, issued by the State Council, identifies a two-way empowerment project between IP and AI among its 12 special projects.
Tencent’s WeChat AI team has published a detailed account of a model-scaling technique it calls Hidden Decoding, using it to build two large mixture-of-experts models: WeLM-HD4-80B and WeLM-HD4-617B. The work is not a consumer product launch.
Westlake Robotics has raised a nearly 100 million yuan Series A to develop a unified, whole-body large model for humanoid robots, adding a new university-derived contender to China’s fast-growing embodied AI sector.
China has put a domestically built 100,000-card artificial intelligence super-cluster into operation at the Zhengzhou node of its national supercomputing network. CGTN, citing the National Development and Reform Commission, described it as the country’s first homegrown cluster at that scale and said it combines scientific computing with intelligent computing.
China’s largest contract chipmaker has delivered a second-quarter result that puts the commercial effects of AI demand in unusually clear view. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., better known as SMIC, reported attributable profit of US$479.2 million, more than triple its year-earlier result. Revenue rose 36 percent to more than US$3 billion.
