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.
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