China is aggressively positioning itself to dominate the emerging field of embodied artificial intelligence (EAI) and humanoid robotics, leveraging its massive industrial base and state support.
A controversial new application of artificial intelligence is sweeping across Chinese social media, allowing users to resurrect past relationships in digital form.
The tightening of US export controls on advanced semiconductor technology was designed to stall China’s technological ascent. Instead, it appears to be accelerating the growth of China’s domestic semiconductor equipment industry.
Alibaba closed out April with two distinct but strategically coherent AI releases: Qwen-Scope, an open suite of sparse autoencoders designed to make the Qwen model family more transparent and controllable, and Happyhorse 1.0, a prompt-driven video editing model that transforms existing footage using natural-language instructions.
The era of embodied artificial intelligence is moving from the laboratory into the living room. Xinhua reports that X Square Robot, a Shenzhen-based startup, has partnered with the home services platform 58.com to launch a commercial home cleaning service that pairs human workers with humanoid robots.
An American field study on China’s artificial intelligence ecosystem has been circulating widely within Chinese technology and venture capital circles this week, sparking pointed self-reflection among investors and founders.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued a strong call for the nation to accelerate its capacity for “original innovation,” emphasizing that basic research is the cornerstone of China’s scientific and technological self-reliance.
In March 2026, OpenAI quietly shut down Sora after six months of commercial irrelevance. In the same month, China’s AI video industry produced more new titles than Netflix has released in its entire history.
In a landmark legal decision that will reverberate across China’s rapidly automating economy, the country’s judicial system ruled that an employer’s adoption of artificial intelligence tools does not constitute a valid legal justification for terminating workers.
China’s brutal electric vehicle (EV) price war is rapidly evolving into a high-stakes “feature war” centered on artificial intelligence. As automakers struggle to differentiate their vehicles based on battery range or traditional driver-assist systems, the battleground has shifted to the dashboard.
The 9th Digital China Summit, the country’s premier annual event for showcasing technological progress and outlining national digital policy, has officially opened in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
In a powerful demonstration of China’s accelerating drive toward technological self-reliance, Tencent Cloud has officially announced the deployment of the DeepSeek V4 foundation model on Huawei’s Ascend 950 artificial intelligence processors. The integration, confirmed by Reuters and detailed by SimplyWall.st, represents a milestone for the domestic AI ecosystem.
The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence in China has hit a significant privacy stumbling block after a user of Moonshot AI’s popular Kimi chatbot reported a disturbing data leak.
The artificial intelligence industry has been captivated by the rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, with breakthroughs in reasoning, coding, and multimodal understanding occurring at a breakneck pace.
In a significant setback for China’s rapidly expanding autonomous driving sector, regulators have abruptly halted the issuance of new commercial robotaxi licenses nationwide.
In a major policy push to revitalize its economy through technological innovation, China’s State Council has unveiled a comprehensive set of 20 measures designed to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across the country’s service sectors.
China’s top internet regulator has launched a comprehensive, months-long enforcement campaign aimed at curbing the misuse of artificial intelligence technologies.
The global artificial intelligence hardware landscape is undergoing a seismic shift as Chinese technology giants increasingly turn to domestic alternatives. At the center of this transition is Huawei Technologies, which now expects its AI chip revenue to surge by at least 60 percent in 2026, reaching approximately $12 billion.
Huawei Technologies is significantly ramping up production of its most advanced artificial intelligence processor, the Ascend 950PR, aiming to ship approximately 750,000 units in 2026.
Tencent’s latest artificial intelligence model, the Hy3 Preview (also known as Hunyuan 3.0 in the domestic market), has generated a wave of positive feedback from the developer community following its open-source release.
