At the ninth China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Qualcomm showcased an on-device mixture-of-experts agent, arguing that edge AI is entering a new phase after three to four years of development. The company says the shift moves phones from single-point apps toward persistent, agent-like experiences.
At the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Ant Group's database unit OceanBase received the Outstanding Contribution Award for building AI data infrastructure, while Xiaomi and AgiBot also took home honors and Siemens pushed industrial AI onto factory lines.
As GPT-6 Astra fuels fears that general AI will swallow robotics, Chinese embodied-AI firm AgiBot staged a launch event built around its Worken compute accounting and 20,000-unit shipment record, arguing robot makers still own the physical half of the problem.
Meituan's LongCat team released LongCat-2.5 on November 2, a native multimodal model built for long-horizon agent tasks with 1.6 trillion total parameters and about 48 billion activated per token. Online trials and API access are open, with weights promised for GitHub and HuggingFace.
A new embodied-AI data center in Hangzhou aims to replace slow human-operated collection with simulation, claiming it can produce in a month what the industry took two years to gather. The pitch reframes robot training capacity as a computing problem rather than a labor problem.
Unitree Robotics' shares have climbed more than 70% over 12 trading days, lifting its market value past 280 billion yuan, yet its first post-IPO quarterly report showed revenue up 69.93% to 665 million yuan while adjusted profit fell 17.42%. The gap between the stock and the numbers is the story.
Beijing's Zhiyuan Institute put five early-stage AI hardware ventures in front of investors at its first public roadshow, spanning chips, neuromorphic computing, robot deployment and physical-world modelling. The aim is to shorten the gap between lab results and paying customers.
ByteDance has denied reports that Zhou Chang, a core leader of its Seedance video-generation model, has resigned to start a company in embodied AI. The rumor had already drawn interest from investors and tech giants.
At its 1024 Developer Festival in Beijing, iFlytek unveiled the Spark X2.6 model, a Token-as-a-Service platform and a new voice model, pitching AI capacity as everyday industrial infrastructure rather than a demo.
Shengshu Technology's world-model team has begun a public livestream of its Motubrain 2.0 training run, lasting half a month. It marks a rare open window into how a Physical AI model learns, following a similar disclosure by Xiaomi's MiMo team.
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the world-model startup co-founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal. The purchase, coming weeks after Nvidia bought Hugging Face, has unsettled Chinese robotics and embodied AI founders.
At Hangzhou's Global Digital Trade Expo, Unitree founder Wang Xingxing argued that humanoid robots still lack the precision for real work, and predicted a coming 'ChatGPT moment' for embodied AI once they can handle unfamiliar spaces.
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