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“Qwen Panic”: How Alibaba’s AI Ambitions Are Shaking Silicon Valley
"Qwen Panic" captures Silicon Valley's unease as Alibaba's AI advances challenge U.S. dominance, with its open-source Qwen models and ChatGPT-competing app reshaping the competitive landscape.
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Alibaba Launches Robotics and Embodied AI
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Xiaomi Responds to Incident of Car Reportedly Driving Off on Its Own
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Afari Technology Unveils AI Plan and New Brand
In Chongqing, Afari debuted its brand and “AI + Vehicle” strategy, showcased 8D city smart-driving, and outlined a rapid robotaxi rollout toward large-scale commercialization.
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ByteDance’s Doubao Translation Model Supports 28 Languages, Performance Comparable to GPT-4o
ByteDance debuts Doubao translation model: two-way across 28 languages, performance comparable to GPT-4o, with fluent output and 4K context.
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Zhipu AI Launches GLM‑4.5, an Open-Source 355B AI Model Aimed at AI Agents
Chinese startup Zhipu AI (now rebranded as Z.ai) has open-sourced its new flagship model GLM‑4.5, a 355-billion-parameter foundation AI model. The July 28 ann...
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SHARGE Named Official Sponsor of The Wandering Earth 3
Consumer electronics brand SHARGE has been announced as an official sponsor for the upcoming Chinese sci-fi blockbuster “The Wandering Earth 3 (Part I)”, continuing its collaboration with the film franchise
Beijing's "First Physical AI Stock" Goes Public: Digital Twin Company 51WORLD Lists in Hong Kong With Market Cap Exceeding US$1.98 Billion
Beijing-based digital twin leader 51WORLD, dubbed China's "first Physical AI stock," debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Its shares opened 14.75% above the IPO price, valuing the "Earth Cloning Plan" company at approximately US$1.98 billion.
Silicon Valley Pet AI Company Traini Raises Over $7.14 Million to Accelerate AI Smart Collar Mass Production
Silicon Valley pet AI startup Traini raised over $7 million to mass-produce its AI-powered smart collar, which uses multimodal models to interpret pet emotions and enable “near real-time” human-pet dialogue.
XPeng and Peking University Paper Accepted to AAAI 2026, Proposing Efficient On-Vehicle Large Model Deployment
XPeng and Peking University introduced FastDriveVLA, an efficient token-pruning framework that slashes computational load for autonomous driving AI models by 7.5x without sacrificing performance, enabling smarter real-time decisions on vehicle hardware.
Tencent AI Lab Deputy Director Yu Dong Reportedly Departs as Hunyuan Team Continues Restructuring
Tencent AI Lab’s Deputy Director, Dr. Yu Dong, a leading expert in speech and NLP, has reportedly left the company amid ongoing restructuring and talent consolidation within Tencent’s foundation model “Hunyuan” team.
AutoMV: First Open-Source Full-Song MV Generation Agent Achieves Beat-Synced Storytelling
The open-source AutoMV system is the first multi-agent framework that can automatically generate full-length, coherent music videos by analyzing a song’s structure, lyrics, and beats, dramatically lowering production cost and time.
World’s First AI Disease-Specific Evidence-Based Evaluation Framework GAPS Released
Researchers from Ant Health and Peking University have jointly released GAPS, the world’s first evaluation framework dedicated to assessing AI's evidence-based clinical capabilities in specific diseases, starting with lung cancer (NSCLC)
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 thought-controlled digital interaction, prioritizing safety and offering performance competitive with leading global technologies.
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