Z.ai Unmasks Mystery 'Ox Alpha' Model as GLM-5.3-Flash
Chinese AI firm Z.ai confirmed its anonymous "Ox Alpha" model was GLM-5.3-Flash, releasing the open-weight, multimodal model under an MIT license.
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China is one of the two centers of the global AI race, home to labs and companies such as Alibaba, DeepSeek, ByteDance, and Zhipu AI, many of which release competitive open-weight models at low cost. It also has some of the world’s strictest AI regulations. This hub follows China’s models, chips, companies, and AI policy.
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XPeng's Robotics Arm Raises $900M at Record $6.3B Valuation
XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million from IDG Capital, Tencent and Alibaba at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest single-round raise yet in China's humanoid robot industry.
Read more →Chinese Humanoid Robot Beats Usain Bolt's 100-Meter Time
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot called Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, edging out Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world record, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Read more →Apple Trains Its Own AI Model for China With Alibaba's Help
Apple has trained a proprietary AI model for the Chinese market with Alibaba's support, becoming the first foreign firm cleared to run its own AI system in China, Reuters reports.
Read more →DeepSeek Raises API Prices Up to 12x With Peak-Hour Billing
DeepSeek will begin peak and off-peak API pricing on August 16, raising some DeepSeek-V4-Pro rates by up to 12 times as demand for its models surges.
Read more →Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 Finds 45-Year-Old Bug, Delays Open Release
Zhipu AI's new GLM-5.3 model found thousands of software vulnerabilities during safety testing, including a 45-year-old bug, prompting a delayed open-weight release.
Read more →Researchers Detail First Near-Autonomous AI Cyberattack on Taiwan
Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream says AI agents ran a largely unsupervised, four-day cyberattack on Taiwanese government networks in July, stealing over 2,500 personnel records.
Read more →DeepSeek Quietly Ships V4 Pro 0813 to Mixed Reviews
DeepSeek's flagship model exited preview on August 12 with sharp gains on coding and agent benchmarks, but only middling scores on general reasoning tests, and no formal announcement.
Read more →AgiBot Overtakes Unitree as World's Top Humanoid Robot Vendor
Chinese robotics maker AgiBot shipped more humanoid robots than rival Unitree in the first half of 2026, a new market report found, as both firms race toward competing IPOs.
Read more →Xiaomi Open-Sources Robotics-1, a 100,000-Hour-Trained Robot Model
Xiaomi released the code and checkpoints for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a vision-language-action model it says tops several robot-manipulation benchmarks, under an Apache 2.0 license.
Read more →DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash-0731, Outperforming Its Bigger Model
DeepSeek's official V4-Flash-0731 release outperforms its larger V4-Pro model on coding and agent benchmarks, despite activating far fewer parameters per token.
Read more →FCC Bars New Chinese Humanoid Robots, Power Inverters From US
The US FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, plus power inverters, to its national-security 'Covered List,' blocking new import approvals over spying and cyberattack risks.
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What Is CXMT — and Why Did Its Record IPO Rattle Chip Markets?
CXMT is China's biggest DRAM memory-chip maker. Its blockbuster Shanghai IPO made it the country's most valuable listed firm — here's what that means for AI hardware.
Read more →China Starts Mass-Producing Homegrown DUV Chipmaking Tools
A Chinese state-backed firm has begun mass-producing homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines for its chipmakers, briefly rattling global semiconductor-equipment stocks.
Read more →What Is Ant Group — and Why Is It Building AI Models?
Ant Group runs Alipay and grew out of Alibaba. Here's what it actually does, why it's tied to Alibaba, and why a payments company now builds its own AI models.
Read more →Anthropic's Amodei Denies Seeking Open-Weight AI Ban
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a July 27 blog post that the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models, urging chip controls and mandatory safety testing instead.
Read more →Ant Group Unveils Ling-3.0-Flash, an Efficient AI Model for Agents
Ant Group's Ling-3.0-Flash matches models several times its size on reasoning and coding benchmarks using just 5.1 billion active parameters, the company says.
Read more →Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3, Its Largest Open-Weight Model
Beijing-based Moonshot AI has published the full open weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model it calls the largest open model released to date.
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What Is Huawei — and Why Is It Building Its Own AI Chips?
Huawei is a Chinese tech giant now racing to build its own AI chips and cloud infrastructure after US export controls cut off its access to Nvidia's GPUs.
Read more →Huawei Cloud Launches Agentic AI Infrastructure in Thailand
Huawei Cloud unveiled a new agentic AI infrastructure stack and opened a beta of its CodeArts coding agent in Thailand, expanding its enterprise AI push in Southeast Asia.
Read more →US, China Among 21 APEC Nations Backing Open-Source AI
APEC ministers from the US, China and 19 other Asia-Pacific economies adopted the Chengdu Statement on July 23, backing open-source AI paired with stronger security safeguards.
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