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AliExpress Brand+ Lands at IFA With a Nine-Brand China AI Hardware Squad

Instead of dumping SKUs, AliExpress Brand+ hosted flying robots, desktop AI boxes, pool cleaners, and Qwen glasses—pushing brandization, EU warehouses, and AI ops tools. IFA 2026 opened in Berlin on ...
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Saudi HUMAIN-M3 Builds on MiniMax M3 as Nations Hunt Open-Weight AI Bases

PIF-backed HUMAIN launched an Arabic frontier model on MiniMax's open MoE stack—showing how sovereign AI projects are turning Chinese open weights into national starting points. HUMAIN-M3 keeps M3's ...
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iFLYTEK Open-Sources Million-Token Context Models for On-Device AI

iFLYTEK's wholly-owned subsidiary launched and open-sourced Spark X2.5-4B and X2.5-1.7B, which it says are the first edge models to natively support up to one million tokens of context. Chinese AI ...
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Tencent Hunyuan Releases Hy4 Preview, Ranking Among the Top Tier of Open-Source Models

On August 28, Tencent Hunyuan released and open-sourced Hy4 preview, its next-generation large language model with 770 billion total parameters and a context window exceeding 1 million tokens. Tencent ...
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Former Qwen Tech Chief Lin Junyang Launches Pragmatik Labs with a Two-Billion-Dollar Valuation — and Pivots from Foundation Models to Agents

Lin Junyang, the former Alibaba Qwen technical lead and one of the youngest P10-level engineers at the company, has founded Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai with a 2 billion dollar angel-round valuation.
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China's Floatboat Harness Beats Claude Opus 4.8 on All Five Benchmarks While Running on the Cheapest Model on the Market

AOE Tech Labs' Floatboat team ran a single-variable Harness benchmark experiment on August 7. With DeepSeek-V4-Flash as the model base and only the execution Harness swapped, the same 0.14-dollar ...
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Zhang Yiming Returns to ByteDance Headquarters and Tells the Seed Team to Stop Distilling

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming made a rare appearance at the company's Beijing headquarters two weeks ago and sent the Seed AI research team a ...
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WAIC 2026: Six Trends We Observed at the World AI Conference as Industry Shifts From Models to Systems

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? From supernode computing to working robots, WAIC 2026 reveals six defining AI trends: model competition shifts to system efficiency, robots enter ...
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GLM-5.3 Arrives Hours After Tang Jie's 'sooooooon' — Zhipu's Coding and Security Model Doubles SWE-Marathon, Tops CyberGym

Three days after a user teased Zhipu AI chief scientist Tang Jie on X about GLM-5.3, he replied 'sooooooon', and hours later the model was live. Focused solely on coding and security, GLM-5.3 more ...
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CXMT LPDDR6 Hits Key Breakthrough: Research Validation Nearing Completion as ChangXin Memory Technologies Closes In on Mass Production of 12,800 Mbps Mobile DRAM

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? CXMT LPDDR6 development validation nearing completion, 12,800 Mbps design rate, 16Gb density, positioning for H2 2026 mass production against SK ...
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ByteDance's Doubao 2.1 Pro Crosses Production Threshold, Seedance 2.5 Video Model Coming July

ByteDance's Volcano Engine has unveiled its latest AI model lineup at the FORCE conference, headlined by the Doubao 2.1 Pro model which has crossed what the company calls the "production-level ...
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Safe, Wireless, and Fully Inside: China Tests Its First Fully Implanted Brain-Computer Interface

China's NeuroXess has successfully conducted the country's first human clinical trial of a fully implanted, wireless brain-computer interface. The system uses non-penetrating electrodes to enable ...